DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 12 (December)

Ask a Part B News Expert: Coding microscopes in surgery

If you simultaneously perform an anterior cervical fusion and corpectomies, is it correct to report 22551 (neck spine fusion and decompression) and 63081 (removal of vertebral body) or would it be 22554 (neck spine fusion) and 63081? Also, if you use a microscope can you add modifier 59 and 69990 (microsurgical techniques, requiring microscope, list separately in addition to primary procedure code) to the 63081 claim?

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