A lumbar facet injection is also referred to as a lumbar facet joint block. In this procedure, a local anesthetic agent (numbing medicine) is injected into your back: specifically, the small ...

The anesthetic makes this procedure easy to tolerate. Facet joint injections take 20 to 30 minutes. In many instances, only one or two injections are required to obtain benefit.

2. CPT code 64492 and 64495 represent third and any additional levels so you would NEVER report more than three facet injection codes for cervical/thoracic or three facet injection codes for ...

Facet joint injections performed using ultrasound are reported with Category III codes 0213T-0218T and as of July 1, 2010, transforaminal injections using ultrasound will be reported with Category III ...

Injection (s), diagnostic or therapeutic agent, paravertebral facet (zygapophyseal) joint (or nerves innervating that joint) with image guidance (fluoroscopy or CT), lumbar or sacral; second level ...

See LCD – Epidural Steroid Injections for Pain Management (L39054) and LCD – Facet Joint Interventions for Pain Management (L38803).

Researchers say the challenge of identifying which patients with low back pain will benefit from facet joint injection may be simplified by using bone scintigraphy with single-photon-emission ...

Medial branch blocks involve the injection of a local anesthetic agent to diagnose low back pain from facet joints. The injection can also serve as a prognostic tool before radiofrequency ablation.