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Neurosurgery Coding Alert

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Decipher This Decompression Scenario

Published on Mon Jul 06, 2020

Question: According to the op report, the neurosurgeon removed a small amount of gel-like substance in the middle of a spinal disc, known as nucleus pulposus. He made a needle puncture through the skin and into the disc. Then he aspirated a small amount of disc material between two vertebrae in the lumbar region of the spine to relieve pressure [...]
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