tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 4

Reader Question: Use Add-On +22522 for Multilevel Vertebroplasty

Question: Our pain management physician performed a three-level vertebroplasty at T12, L1, and L2/L3 on a 47-year-old patient. What is the correct way to code the procedure?  Minnesota Subscriber Answer: The AMA and Medicare may differ in how they recommend you report the procedure. Because the patient your physician treated isn’t covered by Medicare, you’ll follow the AMA’s recommendation. The correct coding is: ·         22520 (Percutaneous vertebroplasty [bone biopsy included when performed], 1 vertebral body, unilateral or bilateral injection; thoracic) for T12 ·    ...

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