Anesthesia Coding Alert

Reader Question:
Remember That 62263 Covers Multiple Days of Treatment

Published on Fri Aug 16, 2019

Question: My physician performed an epidural lysis and administered three injections over the course of three days. It looks like code 62263 is correct for [...]

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