# CPT 22514

> Medicare paid $7,461.62 for CPT 22514 in the office (non-facility) setting and $520.95 in a facility under the Q1 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 0.1% increase from the previous quarter.

## What it is

The same cement-stabilization of a collapsed vertebra as its mid-back counterpart, but performed in the lower back. A needle enters the crushed vertebral body, a cavity is created inside it, and bone cement is injected to shore up the bone, all under X-ray guidance. The code identifies the lumbar spine specifically; treating an additional vertebra in the same sitting is reported on top of this one.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2016 (2016 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $7461.62
- Facility national allowed amount: $520.95
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 8.24
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 198.58
- Facility practice expense RVU: 4.73
- Malpractice RVU: 1.58
- Conversion factor: 35.8043
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16a.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_V0122.csv, row 5,715
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/22514/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/22514/2016/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:29+00:00