CPT Knowledgebase - Mar 4, 2024

When a laminectomy with decompression is performed at the same spinal level as a laminectomy with rhizotomy, would it be appropriate to report both codes 63047 and 63185, or would the work represented by code 63047 be included in the procedure described by code 63185?

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