CPT Knowledgebase - Mar 4, 2024

If a patient undergoes a C3-C6 laminoplasty with osteoplastic reconstruction (63051) and the inferior part of the C2 lamina and the superior part of the C7 lamina are undercut/rounded to prevent a sharp angulation or kinking of the spinal cord as it moves posterior (dome laminectomy), would it be appropriate to report code 63051 in addition to codes 63045 and 63048 for removing part of the C2 and C7 lamina in addition to the laminoplasty, or is that work considered inherently included in the laminoplasty?

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