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62323 or 64483

Date: Dec 13, 2018

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One of our physicians has started performing a transforaminal epidural steroid injection (64483), followed by an interlaminar epidural steroid injection (62323). I know you can’t code both of them, so which one should we use and why? "Uneventful lumbar epidural steroid injection under fluoroscopic guidance and moderate IV sedation, as above described. Today's procedure was performed via a left-sided L5 transforaminal approach, as well as via left-sided L5-S1 conventional interlaminar approach."

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