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Spinal Surgery:

Code Differently for Arthrodesis for Spinal Deformity

Published on Fri Jul 05, 2024

Knowledge of deformity types will help, too. When a patient reports to the neurosurgeon for spinal arthrodesis, you’ll need to know whether the surgery was done to treat a traumatic condition, address degenerative instability, or to treat a spinal deformity acquired due to a disease process. Why? There are a different set of codes for spinal deformity surgery; using other [...]
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