Question: A podiatrist performs a strapping procedure on the big digit of the patient’s right foot. She also injects a therapeutic agent into the left foot. Should I report 29550 and 20550 as separate procedures?
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Answer: Yes. The CCI bundles 20550 (Strapping; toes) into 29550 (Injections[s]; single tendon sheath, or ligament, aponeurosis [e.g., plantar "fascia"]). However, your podiatrist performed the procedures in different anatomic locations, so you can bypass the bundling edit by appending modifier [...]
