What is the expected duration of steroid effect for diagnostic injection?

What is the purpose of a diagnostic injection, to select patients for fusion surgery only? Also, with diagnostic injections using anesthetic and steroid, what is the duration of effect expected for the steroid?

Take Advantage of Tobacco Counseling When Performing Medicare Wellness Visits 

Take Advantage of Tobacco Counseling When Performing Medicare Wellness Visits Medicare providers can optimize revenue and improve patient outcomes with Medicare's Annual Wellness Visits. These visits help identify gaps in healthcare, increase [...]

PR-204

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Medicare Fee-for-Service does not cover the service that has been billed for the condition. The CPT/HCPCS on the claim is not a covered Medicare service/equipment or drug. There are multiple reasons for denial [...]

CO-119

Avoiding/Correcting This Error The beneficiary has reached their therapy cap limit for the year. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 repealed application of the Medicare outpatient therapy caps but retains the former cap amounts as a threshold [...]

Federally Qualified Health Center

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What is the requirements for diagnostic injections? Are two required?

What is the time period between a therapeutic injection and repeat diagnostic, if the therapeutic injection has not been performed for an extended period? At this point, does diagnostic need to be repeated?