Inaccurate information on facet joint injections in the Medicare population

The manuscript by Beckworth et al. [1] is very interesting; however, they arrive at different conclusions than our prior studies would have suggested [2–5]. Their purpose was to evaluate whether the Current Procedural Terminology code changes correlated with a decrease in the use of facet joint injections (FJI) [1]. The most notable drop occurred in 2010, which correlated with the release of new Current Procedural Terminology codes that bundled image guidance and limited procedures to three levels or less.

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