# CPT 22514

> Medicare paid $7,267.46 for CPT 22514 in the office (non-facility) setting and $504.60 in a facility under the Q1 2017 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2017. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 2.6% decrease 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 2017 (2017 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2017
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $7267.46
- Facility national allowed amount: $504.60
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 7.99
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 193.01
- Facility practice expense RVU: 4.57
- Malpractice RVU: 1.50
- Conversion factor: 35.8887
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17a.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_V1219.csv, row 5,884
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/22514/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/22514/2017/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:28+00:00