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Report 64483 for Lumbar Nerve Root Block

Published on Thu May 13, 2004

Question: What code should I report for a lumbar nerve root block?

Florida Subscriber Answer: Code your first level block with 64483 (Injection, anesthetic agent and/or steroid, transforaminal epidural; lumbar or sacral, single level). Report each additional level with +64484 (... lumbar or sacral, each additional level [list separately in addition to code for primary procedure]). -- Answers to You Be the Coder and Reader Questions were reviewed by  Rebecca Sussman, CPC, with Georgia Pain Clinic in Marietta, Ga.
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