Fluoroscopic guided Lumbar epidural injection ( Right L4 nerve root) Fluoroscopically guided lumbar puncture in a morbidly obese patient with CSF Epidural Steroid Injections Risks and Side Hip joint injections involve injecting medicine directly into the joint. These injections can help diagnose the source of pain, as well as alleviate the discomfort. Fluoroscopic guidance helps ensure accuracy so that the medicine injected into the joint provides maximum benefit. Glenohumeral Joint Injection With Fluoroscopy. By. Christopher Faubel, M.D. - October 18, 2012. 0. 12949. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter. 77002 - Fluoroscopic guidance of a needle (non-spinal) Remember to bill for the J-codes for the contrast and steroid as well. Patient Position. A physician in our group is taking the patient to the surgery center for a hip injection using fluoroscopy. We know CPT code 20611 includes ultrasound guidance but is fluoroscopy also considered inclusive? I am looking at CPT code 77002. After local anesthesia, a needle is maneuvered into the area of interest under fluoroscopic guidance. Correct needle placement is confirmed by using a combination of imaging and injection of a small amount of iodinated contrast. Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Brian Zernich, demonstrates the technique of a fluoroscopically guided steroid hip injection. Fluoroscopy is a study of moving body structures—similar to an X-ray "movie." Image-guided anesthetic injections into joints or the spine. the particular procedure being performed may be painful, such as the injection into a joint or accessing of an artery or vein for angiography. In Report therapeutic hip injection under ?uoro with 20610 and 77002 agent into the hip joint under ?uoroscopic guidance, you would report 20610 for the major joint injection This code reports both the injection and the imaging guidance. y A therapeutic or diagnostic procedure is performed. Abstract. Summary: Lumbar epidural injections are typicall