AMA CPT® Assistant - 2023 Issue 8 (August)

Reporting Guidance for Codes 22554 and 63081 vs 22551 and 22552 (August 2023)

August 2023 pages 11-13 Reporting Guidance for Codes 22554 and 63081 vs 22551 and 22552 In 2008, the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Editorial Panel was asked by the Relativity Assessment Workgroup of the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) to combine a pair of codes into a single code, which would ultimately create a new coding structure. As a result of the 2008 request, two new codes (22551, 22552) were added to the CPT 2011 code set to report arthrodesis that includes disk space preparation, discectomy, osteophytectomy, and decompression of the spinal cord below...

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