Editor’s Note: This article by Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies, originally appeared in The Coding Advocate, mdStrategies free monthly newsletter. Sign-up to receive this ...
RM: Facet joint injections (and related medial branch blocks) changed codes on Jan. 1, 2010. The guidelines for the old codes (64470-64476) allowed for any number of spinal levels to be coded, and ...
The guidelines' expert panel, lead by Roger Chou, performed a comprehensive analysis of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials, and made recommendations using the methods adapted from the ...