# CPT 64483

> Medicare paid $246.33 for CPT 64483 in the office (non-facility) setting and $110.51 in a facility under the Q1 2024 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2024. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 1.2% decrease from the previous quarter.

## What it is

An image-guided injection of an anesthetic and/or steroid into the space around a single lumbar or sacral spinal nerve root, delivered from the side of the spine (a transforaminal approach).

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2024 (2024 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2024
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $246.33
- Facility national allowed amount: $110.51
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.90
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 5.32
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.24
- Malpractice RVU: 0.18
- Conversion factor: 33.2875
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2024)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu24ar-posted-04/01/2024.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU24_JAN.csv, row 12,543
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/64483/2024/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/64483/2024/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:13:31+00:00