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Doctor performed Right and Left transforaminal epidural injection at L5 level. Can this be billed as 64483 and 64484 or is this consider 1 level? Again this is a bilateral procedure
at L5.
The correct way to report this is 64483-50. When it says "each additional level" in the descriptor for 64484, you would want to only want to use the add on code if a separate level was performed. There is a article from MLN Matters on the 50