Outcome measures included overall characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries receiving facet joint interventions, utilization of facet joint interventions by place of service, by specialty, reimbursement characteristics, and other variables.
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Table 2 illustrates the summary of frequency of utilization of facet joint interventions based on CPT code and place of service.
There was an increase of facet joint interventions by general physicians of over 1,109%.
There has been an exponential growth of facet joint interventions in office settings of 271% with ASC settings showing 168% growth and HOPD settings showing 40% growth.
There was a significant increase of 1,109% in the utilization of facet joint interventions by general physicians -- composed of general practice, family practice, and internal medicine -- from 2002 to 2006, an annual increase of 277.3%.
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This inclusion is important because patients below the age of 65 represent a significant proportion of patients receiving facet joint interventions, with a higher frequency of services.
Despite these limitations, nonoperative care such as epidural steroid injections, as well as facet joint and sacroiliac joint interventions, increased an average of 16.5% annually from 2000 to 2008.
In this study, we sought to evaluate the use of all types of facet joint interventions (i.e., intraarticular injections, facet joint nerve blocks, and facet joint neurotomy) in the lumbar, cervical, and thoracic spine.
