CPT^® 62327, Under Injection, Drainage, or Aspiration Procedures on the Spine and Spinal Cord

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 62327 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 lumbar (lower back) or sacral (caudal, or tailbone) region via continuous infusion or intermittent boluses (large doses). She uses 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 ]

Billing for bolus following 62327 in office

Hello, I work for a pain management office. On rare occasions, one doc will insert a lumbar indwelling cath (62327) and the patient will come back in the office each day for a few days in a row to re... [ Read More ]

CNB (Continuous Nerve Block Catheter)

Hello, so 01996 is to be reported hand and hand with codes 62324-62327 . Injection(s), including indwelling catheter placement, continuous infusion or intermittent bolus, of diagnostic or therapeuti... [ 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 ]

doctor orders a procedure for next visit

[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 ]

NCCI Policy Manual 2017---New Instructions found in Red

[url]https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/NationalCorrectCodInitEd/index.html[/url] [COLOR=#ff0000][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000]Chapter 1 NCCI policy Manual 2017 MUE and NCCI PTP edits are based on servic... [ Read More ]

2017 Epidural Codes: w/or w/o Image Guidance

CPT code numbers now available for 2017 62320 Injection(s), of diagnostic or therapeutic substance(s) (eg, anesthetic, antispasmodic, opioid, steroid, other solution), not including neurolytic subs... [ Read More ]

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