Pain management therapy is widely used across all medical institutions. Patients often come in with complaints of pain or the procedures done can cause them pain which need to be managed. Some suffer from chronic pain while others suffer acute pain due to a recent injury.

A rarely spoken about aspect of pain management is pain management billing; this task is tedious for all sorts of medical practices. Here are some tips to help your billing procedure:

Have an in-depth description of the diagnosis

Don’t try to keep the description of the diagnosis of a patient brief. The more details you include, the better. These descriptions must include the name of the condition, the area affected, its origin, and more. Also make sure you’re incorporating all other details that are relevant to the diagnosis e.g. any internal bleeding involved or any details that qualify the patient for services performed.

Document all intravenous medications

Pain medication is mostly given via an injection for immediate relief. Most patients have an IV put in so that they don’t have to swallow regular meds and then wait for them to take effect. Any and all injections used must be documented correctly. Trigger point injections, nerve blockers, and facet joint injections are all separate types of injections and they require to be identified when recording the information.

The person managing the billing process must have access to all such information, so as to not miss out on important details that can cause errors in the claims filed. The route of the needle, final position, medicine injected, spinal levels, and the use of fluoroscopic guidance are all such examples of information required. The area injected, in terms of muscle groups must be recorded as well.

Having all the data required or even some additional data will never do you any harm. It only makes the whole billing process more thorough and reduces the chances of errors.

Know the pain management codes

Medical billing revolves around codes. These codes are used by the medical practice to inform the insurance payer of the details of the procedures done and what have been billed. Pain management codes are subject to change every year. Here are some of the latest pain management codes used:

• 77002 – is the code for non-spinal fluoroscopic needle guidance
• 97010 – is the code used for heating or cooling packs
• 96372 – is used when medication is injected into a muscle
• 20552 – is used for trigger point injections in one or two muscles
• 64405 – is used for nerve blockers

If your business requires help with medical billing solutions, get in touch with the experts at A & B Medical Billing Solutions. The service also provides pain management billing as well as anesthetic billing. Visit their website or call them at 954-596-9966 to know more about their services.