Neurosurgery Coding Alert
You Be the Coder:
Go Unlisted With Bone Fiducials
Published on Fri Aug 27, 2010
Question: Wisconsin Subscriber Answer: If your neurosurgeon is just implanting the fiducials, you would report 21499 (Unlisted musculoskeletal procedure, head). For stereotactic DBS placement of electrodes, the procedure is bundled to the stereotactic part of the procedure and would not be separately reported. As an alternative, you could report 64999 (Unlisted procedure, nervous system).
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