# CPT 22513

> Medicare paid $7,458.79 for CPT 22513 in the office (non-facility) setting and $560.28 in a facility under the Q1 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2015. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment.

## What it is

A collapsed vertebra in the mid-back is stabilized through a needle passed into the bone, with a balloon or similar device first used to open a cavity inside the crushed vertebral body before bone cement is injected to fill it. X-ray guidance is part of the work. This is the thoracic version; the same technique done in the lower back carries a different code, and further levels treated in the same session are reported separately.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2015 (2015 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2015
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $7458.79
- Facility national allowed amount: $560.28
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 8.90
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 197.92
- Facility practice expense RVU: 4.98
- Malpractice RVU: 1.79
- Conversion factor: 35.7547
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2015)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15a.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU15_V1223c.csv, row 5,538
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/22513/2015/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/22513/2015/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:39+00:00