2023 Update to CMS' Covered Indications for Sacroiliac Joint Injection

<p> </p> <div class="">2023 Update to the Sacroiliac Joint </div> <div class="">CMS Covered Indications for SI Joint Injection</div> <div class=""> </div> <div class="">Long Island Based Interventional Pain Physician, David Rosenblum, MD discusses Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction, and CMS’s Covered Indications for Sacroiliac Joint Injection and Diagnostic Nerve Block</div> <div class=""> </div> <div class=""><strong class=""><em class="">The CE experience for this </em><em class="">Podcast</em><em class=""> is powered by CMEfy - </em></strong><a class="" href= "https://earnc.me/ryGmAg"><strong class="">click here</strong></a><strong class=""><em class=""> to reflect and earn credits: </em><span class=""><a class="" href= "https://earnc.me/ryGmAg">https://earnc.me/ryGmAg</a></span></strong></div> <div class=""><span class=""> For Board Review, <a title= "Pain Management Board Review" href= "https://www.nrappain.org/collections" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Click Here!</a></span></div> <div class=""> </div> <div class="">Sacroiliac Joint Injections are considered necessary and reasonable when all of the following criteria are met:</div> <div class=""> </div> <ol class=""> <li class="">Moderate to severe low back pain primarily experienced over the anatomical location of the SI joints between the upper level of the iliac crests and the gluteal fold, <span class= "">AND</span></li> <li class="">Low back pain duration of at least three (3) months, <span class="">AND</span></li> <li class="">Low back pain below L5 without radiculopathy, <span class="">AND</span></li> <li class="">Clinical findings and/or imaging studies do not suggest any other diagnosed or obvious cause of the lumbosacral pain (such as central spinal stenosis with neurogenic claudication/myelopathy, foraminal stenosis or disc herniation with concordant radicular pain/radiculopathy, infection, tumor, fracture, pseudoarthrosis, or pain related to spinal instrumentation), <span class="">AND</span></li> <li class="">At least three positive findings with pr