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Discover Primary Laminotomy Codes

Published on Thu Apr 11, 2019

Question: I’m new to neurosurgery coding, and I’m confused about how to correctly report the primary laminotomy CPT® codes. Can you please help me? New York Subscriber Answer: CPT® identifies four primary codes to describe laminotomy for the primary purpose of discectomy, which is an excision, in part or whole, of an intervertebral disc. These are all unilateral procedure codes [...]
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