tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 34

CPT 2008 SPECIAL ISSUE: Prepare To Code For Computer-Assisted Surgeries Next Year

Choosing an abdominal lesion excision code will get easierCutting-edge surgeries and common procedures that your physician may already be performing will finally have new codes in 2008. They include: - Osteotomy of spine (22206-22208). A parenthetical note mentions you-ll use these new codes for -pedicle/ vertebral body subtraction.- Surgeons also refer to this procedure as -trans-pedicular three-column osteotomy.- Until now, you-ve had no code to cover this procedure, which involves a posterior approach and includes three columns.All three of these codes cover posterior or posterolateral approach of three columns and one vertebral segment. Code 22206 applies...

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