Coding Tips:
Solve Your Dural Repair Coding Dilemmas With These Winning Pointers
Published on Mon Jun 04, 2012
Action: Confirm the reason for dural leak, grafting. If you're wondering how best to report the dura repair that your surgeon performs with cranial and spinal procedures, you'll need to know why the dural repair was necessary and if any grafting was needed to complete the repair. Folllow our advice below for finessing your dural repair claims. Look to Two Codes for Dural Repair in the Skull Following a prior surgical procedure that was not a skull base procedure, your surgeon may return the patient to the operating room to repair a dural leak. This dural repair is another primary procedure that your surgeon does. You turn to code 62100 (Craniotomy for repair of dural/cerebrospinal fluid leak, including surgery for rhinorrhea/otorrhea) for the dural repair. This code is inclusive of the grafting, if any was done by your surgeon. If you read that this repair was done within the global [...]