A 48-year-old female comes to her physician for aspiration of her right ring finger where fluid has accumulated due to a past injury of that finger and she continues to have pain. The physician performs arthrocentesis and follows up with an injection of steroid in the same joint. Select the appropriate CPT code.

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The correct CPT code for a small joint arthrocentesis with or without injection is 20600. The modifier F8 indicates the right ring finger. The procedure is performed once, so it is not multiplied by two.

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