Do any of you coding specialists know the code for sinus tarsi injection?  I think the dignosis is 726.79 but my coder  tells me she can't find an injection code, and I haven't found one either.

Larry Aronberg, DPM

I have always billed 20605  for this injection. Also dont forget to include the medication code.

Ah, but you'll note that the surgical crosscoder from Ingenix doesn't list that for 726.79. That's my problem.  I could use those close-to codes, but surely there must be one actually for sinus tarsi syndrome

Larry

I would change the diagnosis from sinus tarsi syndrome to something more generic such as synovitis/capsulitis and the crossover for the injection would be 20605.  I dont think the entity sinus tarsi syndrome is descriptive enough to payers to put an actual cpt code for the injection. Just my thoughts