CPT^® 62320, Under Injection, Drainage, or Aspiration Procedures on the Spine and Spinal Cord

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 62320 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 injects a diagnostic or a therapeutic substance, such as pain medication or a steroid, into the space around the spinal nerves of the cervical (neck) or thoracic (upper and middle back) region. She inserts a needle or catheter (tube) to facilitate the injection but does not use imaging guidance.

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Labor to c section different days

[QUOTE="krioslowellanes, post: 494604, member: 605563"] Can someone help me with post op pain management for an anesthesia group? Can we bill the cpt code 62279 or was it taken off the cpt code and re... [ Read More ]

76000 with 62321

Show her the descriptions of 62320 and 62321. It's not hard to see the difference as long as you understand the indenting of the 2nd code means everything in the first code is included.... [ Read More ]

EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION 64483

64483 is for Transforaminal - Epidural Steroid Injections the code to use is determined on location and if guidance was used or not - 62321 for cervical 62323 for lumbar with guidance, 62320 cervical ... [ Read More ]

Epidural Steroid Injections

From the 2019 AMA CPT manual, pp.423: "When reporting 62320-62327 code choice is based on the region at which the needle or catheter entered the body. Codes should be reported only once, when the subs... [ Read More ]

Caudal ESI with ultrsound guidance

Below is from AMA CPT Assistant September 2017. I think there can be some question how an ultrasound guided injection for a lumbar epdiural is reported, but I think the major roadblock is that the ca... [ Read More ]

paraspinal injection

Hello- i have a procedure where the physician does an injection "outside of the paraspinal process" Procedures Paracervical block: After chlorhexidine preparation approximately 3 mL of 0.5% bupivac... [ Read More ]

77002 and 77003

Here is the codes, you should just order the book and paid for it yourself if the provider will not cover it. i would order the AMA CPT Professional Edition. If you discuss coding with the provider, y... [ Read More ]

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[COLOR=#000000][FONT="]Epidurography should only be reported when it is reasonable and medically necessary to perform a [/FONT][/COLOR][B]diagnostic study. It should not be billed for the usual wo... [ Read More ]

epidurals using theracaths

When discussing catheters and epidurals. There would be a couple of codes that could be considered. For example in the lumbar region with fluoroscopic guidance, threading a catheter in the epidural sp... [ Read More ]

can you code 62323 with 72275? I am new to pain management -thanks!

[COLOR=#000000][FONT='inherit']Epidurography should only be reported when it is reasonable and medically necessary to perform a [/FONT][/COLOR][B]diagnostic study. It should not be billed for the usua... [ Read More ]

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