A medial branch block is an injection of a strong local anesthetic on the medial branch nerves that supply the facet joints. The facet joints, also known as the zygapophysial joints, are part of the ...
Back pain is the most common complaint in a pain management clinic. This review discusses use of RFA for back pain including facetogenic pain, including cervical and lumbar pain due to sacroiliac (SI) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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