CPT^® 62263, Under Injection, Drainage, or Aspiration Procedures on the Spine and Spinal Cord

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 62263 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.

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The provider places a catheter or introduces a chemical substance to an adhesion in the epidural space to remove the adhesion, in a procedure often referred to as a Racz catheter procedure or epidural neurolysis. The provider uses imaging to identify the site of the adhesions and the procedure occurs over more than one session and more than one day.

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Epidural Lysis

62263 would reported one time for "entire series of injections involving "2 or more days". No additional code would be reported to capture it since 62263 includes injections in epidural space. AMA C... [ Read More ]

Epidural Lysis

My physician performed an Epidural Lysis and performed three injections over the course of three days. It looks like CPT code 62263 is the correct code for the percutaneous epidural adhesion. I am j... [ Read More ]

APC changes for Nerve Injections

APCs for outpatient hospital fee schedule for nerve injections/procedures 207,206,203,204 in 2015 have been deleted for 2015 and replaced with 5431-5432, 5441-5443 [url]https://www.cms.gov/Medicare... [ Read More ]

62264 lysis of adhesions question

Here is a great article explaing the procedure as well as what these codes cover. [URL]http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/26146.pdf[/URL] 62264 for a single infusion and 62263 for a staged three-series... [ Read More ]

62264 lysis of adhesions question - adhesiolysis sessions

" including multiple adhesiolysis sessions" What is being described with the above statement is that "IF" multiple adhesiolysis sessions are performed on a single calendar day, CPT 62264 is only repo... [ Read More ]

Help with coding cpt 62311 for PM

[b]My thoughts and interpretation...[/b] In reading the Guidelines on [B]page 349[/B] of the 2014 CPT Professional Edition by AMA it states: "Fluoroscopy (for localization) may be used in the placeme... [ Read More ]

Coding help on several RF procedures

for example 64640------I meant 64610 with image guidance. 62264 or 66263---I meant 62263... [ Read More ]

Please advise

AMA CPT Changes 2000 "Code 62263 is a new code describing a relatively new procedure not previously described by CPT. Code 62263 describes a percutaneous epidural catheter-based treatment involving ta... [ Read More ]

Please advise

Epidural adhesions are lysed percutaneously by an injection, such as hypertonic saline or an enzyme solution, or by mechanical means. The patient is placed in the sitting or lateral decubitus position... [ Read More ]

Caudal epiduram lysis of adhesions under fluoroscopy

Below is from June 2012 AMA CPT Assistant, They shouldn't be adding the 59 modifier to 62311 since it is inclusive to inject steroid/anesthetic to a lysis and 72275 is bundled per AMA also. .......Wh... [ Read More ]

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