CPT®:
Navigate PLIF Claims By Remembering Additional Add-On Procedures
Published on Tue Jul 16, 2019
If surgeon instruments 3 or more segments, you should report segmental pedicle screw fixation. When your neurosurgeon performs a posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF), he accesses the patient’s vertebrae through an incision in the patient’s back. The surgeon completes the PLIF by inserting a bone graft or a biomechanical spacer implant to promote fusion between the vertebrae, and he may [...]