Reader Question: Use Unlisted Code for Pin Placement in SI Joint
Neurosurgery Coding Alert
Reader Question:
Use Unlisted Code for Pin Placement in SI Joint
Published on Fri Jan 28, 2011
Question:
How do we report when the surgeon makes a 4 cm incision and then utilizes fluoroscopic guidance to advance several Steinmann pins into the SI joint? No other bone work performed.
New Jersey
Answer:
This would be reported with unlisted code 22899 (Unlisted procedure, spine).