AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2003 Second Quarter; Correction Notice

Kyphoplasty

Note: As of October 1, 2004, kyphoplasty is reported using code 81.66. Advice published in Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2002, recommended code 78.49, Other repair or plastic operations on bone, and code 03.53, Repair of vertebral fracture, for kyphoplasty. This advice was not entirely accurate. Assign only code 78.49, Other repair or plastic operations of bone, for kyphoplasty. Code 03.53, Repair of vertebral fracture, would not be assigned as an additional procedure code. Kyphoplasty involves reshaping of affected vertebra or vertebrae and meets the definition of osteoplasty. Therefore, assign only code 78.49, whether...

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