tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 13

Spine Surgery: Look For Corpectomy In Addition To Arthrodesis With New Approach

You can bill 63101-63103 for more than "minimal diskectomy"If your surgeon is performing spine surgeries by the lateral extracavitary approach, you no longer need to use an unlisted code.   CPT Codes 2004 includes three codes specifically to describe arthrodesis by lateral extracavitary technique: 22532 (Arthrodesis, lateral extracavitary technique, including minimal diskectomy to prepare interspace [other than for decompression]; thoracic), 22533 (... lumbar) and 22534 (... thoracic or lumbar, each additional vertebral segment [list separately in addition to code for primary procedure]). You can use these codes to distinguish extracavitary from other approaches, such as anterolateral (22548-22556) or posterior...

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