Please note this question was answered in 2010. The coding advice may or may not be outdated.
Date: Feb 9, 2010
Question:
Hello Dr. Z, I have yet another question for you. Our radiologist does vertebroplasties and always does an epidural injection with this. The code for a thoracic lumbar vertebroplasty is 22520 and then the epidural injection code is 62311. We have been putting the 59 modifier on the 62311 as it is a seperate procedure, but on the physician side we are still getting edits saying that they can not be billed together. What is your suggestion? Thanks,
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