AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2019 Issue 4

Spinal procedures: approach and visualization

The Central Office often receives requests for coding advice pertaining to spinal procedures, including spinal fusions. Many of these procedures are open procedures, performed on an inpatient basis and are included on the Medicare Inpatient Only (IPO) list. Although we get many requests for HCPCS coding assistance pertaining to these types of procedures, we are generally not able to respond as our services are limited to providing coding assistance for outpatient facility coding questions only since ICD-10-PCS is the HIPAA standard for hospital inpatient reporting. As a reminder, coding questions we can respond to include the following: Level I...

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