What is the CPT code 62321?
What is the CPT code 62321?
62321. Injection(s), of diagnostic or therapeutic substance(s) (eg, anesthetic, antispasmodic, opioid, steroid, other solution), not including neurolytic substances, including needle or catheter placement, interlaminar epidural or subarachnoid, cervical or thoracic; with imaging guidance (ie, fluoroscopy or CT)
What is the CPT code for ESI?
The regular epidural steroid injection (ESI) procedures (CPT Codes 62310-62319) are also referred to as translaminar injections (don’t confuse these procedures with transforaminal ESI procedures, which we’ll cover next). These injections are done midline.
What is the difference between CPT code 64483 and 64484?
CPT codes 64479 and 64483 are used to report a single level injection performed with image guidance (fluoroscopy or CT). CPT codes 64480 and 64484 represent each additional level respectively and should be reported separately in addition to the primary procedure when applicable.
What is procedure code 64483?
CPT® Code 64483 – Introduction/Injection of Anesthetic Agent (Nerve Block), Diagnostic or Therapeutic Procedures on the Somatic Nerves – Codify by AAPC.
What does CPT code 62323?
Injection
CPT® 62323, Under Injection, Drainage, or Aspiration Procedures on the Spine and Spinal Cord. The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 62323 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range – Injection, Drainage, or Aspiration Procedures on the Spine and Spinal Cord.
What is the CPT code 64490?
The CPT codes 64490 and 64493 are intended to be used to report all of the nerves that innervate the first level paravertebral facet joint and not each nerve. Facet joint levels refer to the joints that are blocked and not the number of medial branches that innervate them as defined by the AMA CPT Committee.
How do you code a transforaminal epidural steroid injection?
A transforaminal epidural steroid injection (TFESI) performed at the T12-L1 level should be reported with CPT code 64479.
What is lumbar transforaminal epidural injection?
In a lumbar epidural injection, a corticosteroid (anti-inflammatory medicine) is injected into the epidural space to reduce inflammation. A local anesthetic (numbing medicine) may also be injected. When it is done from the side where the nerve exists the spine, it is called a transforaminal injection.
Is 64483 a bilateral procedure?
Consistent with the LCD, it is not medically reasonable and necessary to perform caudal ESIs or interlaminar ESIs bilaterally, therefore CPT codes 62321 and 62323 are not bilateral procedures. CPT codes 64479 and 64483 are used to report a single level injection.
What is the difference between CPT 64483 and 64493?
The two procedures should not be performed together at the same time because 64493 is a diagnostic procedure and the 64483 may interfere with the results.
What is CPT code 62323?
What is procedure code 99152?
Billing for moderate sedation services, CPT codes 99151 or 99152, represents the first 15 minutes of service. All physician work occurs during that first 15 minutes. Usually thereafter, the physician is engaged in performing the procedure, and a nurse will monitor the patient.
