CPT Knowledgebase - May 19, 2015

When performing an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C4-C5 and C5-C6, how much of the vertebral body must be removed to appropriately report code 63081, Vertebral corpectomy (vertebral body resection), partial or complete, anterior approach with decompression of spinal cord and/or nerve root(s); cervical, single segment?

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