AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 3 (March)
Surgery: Nervous System (Q&A) (March 2015)
March 2015 page 10 Surgery: Nervous System Question: Is it appropriate to report code 62287 when a percutaneous discectomy is performed at three levels? Answer: Yes. Although it is unusual to have a three-level disc herniation requiring open decompression, this would be reported with code 62287, Decompression procedure, percutaneous, of nucleus pulposus of intervertebral disc, any method utilizing needle based technique to remove disc material under fluoroscopic imaging or other form of indirect visualization, with the use of an endoscope, with discography and/or epidural injection(s) at the treated level(s), when performed, single or multiple levels, lumbar. Code 62287 would...
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