What is the CPT code for an IT band injection?

Article Guidance Rather, the provider of these therapies must bill with CPT code 64455 or 64632 Injection(s), anesthetic agent and/or steroid, plantar common digital nerve(s) (eg, Morton’s neuroma) as the correct CPT code for the service.

What is the difference between CPT codes 20550 and 20551?

CPT code 20550 defines an injection to the tendon sheath; CPT code 20551 defines an injection to the origin/insertion site of a tendon. CPT code 20550 is frequently used for a trigger finger injection, where the injection is administered to the tendon sheath.

What is ITB injection?

An iliotibial band injection involves the injection of local anaesthetic and corticosteroid into the inflamed area. This procedure is always performed in the day surgery under X-ray or ultrasound control.

What is the CPT code for iliotibial release?

Iliotibial band release is a fasciotomy, see CPT code 27305.

What does CPT code 20550 mean?

20550 Injection(s); single tendon sheath, or ligament, aponeurosis (e.g., plantar “fascia”) 20551 single tendon origin/insertion.

What is included in CPT 20550?

Injections for plantar fasciitis are billed with CPT code 20550 and ICD-9-CM 728.71. Injections for calcaneal spurs are billed as other tendon origin/insertions with CPT code 20551. 6. Injections that include both the plantar fascia and the area around a calcaneal spur are to be reported using a single CPT code 20551.

How do you inject an IT band?

Once identified, the IT band can be injected via a posterolateral or anterolateral approach (3). Using an in-plane approach, the needle can be guided into the IT band bursa located in the space between the IT band and the lateral femoral condyle (4). Corticosteroids should not be injected directly into the IT band (8).

Can you get a cortisone shot in the IT band?

Cortisone is a potent anti-inflammatory that reduces inflammation and pain. IT Band syndrome produces inflammation as it passes over the bony prominence on the outside of the knee. By directing cortisone at the IT band at the level of this bony prominence, inflammation and pain are reduced.

What is the CPT code for iliotibial band lengthening?

CPT 27025
For the IT band lengthening, surgeons should use CPT 27025. The IT band lengthening is a modified Ober-Yount fasciotomy, which involves making both a longitudinal and transverse incisions in the IT band at the level of the greater trochanter.