AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 2 (February)
Reporting Endoscopic Decompression of Spinal Cord Nerve Roots (February 2017)
February 2017 pages 12-13 Reporting Endoscopic Decompression of Spinal Cord Nerve Roots Effective January 1, 2017, definitions were added in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, which were adopted by the CPT Editorial Panel, to differentiate percutaneous, endoscopic, and open spine procedures. These definitions were based on approach and visualization, whether or not another method is incidentally applied, and surgical services are presumed open unless otherwise specified. Percutaneous: Image-guided procedures (eg, computer tomography [CT] or fluoroscopy) performed with indirect visualization of the spine without use of any device that allows visualization through a surgical incision. Endoscopic: Spinal...
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