CPT Knowledgebase - Sep 28, 2023

To report arthrodesis codes 22600-22612, must the physician decorticate the transverse processes and both sides of the facet joints when performing a posterolateral fusion, or may the physician just do one or the other when the surgeon feels that it would be adequate to perform the fusion?

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