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Coding Corner Answer

  |  Issue: June 2007  |  

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The proper way to code this visit is as 20610, 20610-59. An evaluation and management code should not be reported unless there was a new medical problem since the patient was specifically scheduled for the arthrocentesis. It is important to include modifier -59 to alert the carrier that an arthrocentesis was done on two different sites on the body.

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