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tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 32
Physician Notes: Prepare For More Flexibility When Billing Spinal Surgery Codes
Good news! Starting in October, you can bill for a whole range of spinal surgery codes alongside four spinal instrumentation codes: 22849-22850 and 22852-22855. For years, a slew of spinal surgery codes were mutually exclusive with those four codes, but CCI 10.3 deletes that edit. That means every single spinal surgery code from 22318-22812 is now fair game to bill with those four instrumentation codes. The only codes in that range that this longstanding edit didn't affect were four add-on codes (22328, 22585, 22614 and 22632) and some codes that were added in 2004 (22532-22534). Also, 25 codes...
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