A surgeon performs a laminectomy/facetectomy and foraminotomy on a patient who has spinal stenosis of

A surgeon performs a laminectomy/facetectomy and foraminotomy on a patient who has spinal stenosis of the lumbar spine at the L3-L4 level to decompress it. In addition, the patient also has a synovial cyst that is adherent to dura and is resected at the L4-L5 level. Would it be appropriate to report codes 63267 and 63047 with modifier 59 appended for the different spinal levels involved, or would it be appropriate to report only code 63267?

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