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Spinal Dural Repair:

Dial Into Codes for Synthetic Spinal Dural Grafts, Delayed CSF Leak Repairs

Published on Wed Jun 12, 2019

Hint: Reporting 63707 or 63709 depends upon whether surgeon performed laminectomy. When the surgeon performs a spinal dural repair to contain a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, you need to look for specific details in the medical documentation such as whether he performed a laminectomy to access the tear for the repair or whether any grafting was needed to complete the [...]
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