tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2018 Issue 7

CPT® Coding: Nail Down the Concept of Corpectomy Thresholds with this Guide

Rely on percentage of vertebral removal to reach the most accurate code. If your ambulatory surgery center (ASC) performs vertebral corpectomy procedures, you may be in need of a proper coding resource to stay profitable and compliant. As you’ll see, the most important piece of the puzzle is pinning down the underlying reason for the corpectomy. However, whether the surgeon performs the service as a means of relieving spinal canal decompression or for the removal of a lesion/neoplasm, there’s one additional factor you need to take into account: thresholds. Consider the following two cervical corpectomy CPT® codes:...

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