You Be the Coder:
Should You Bill 63056 and 63047 Together?
Published on Mon Aug 19, 2013
Question: If our surgeon does a transpedicular discectomy and a redo laminectomy, medial facetectomy at the same level, are both 63056 (Transpedicular approach with decompression of spinal cord, equina and/or nerve root[s] [e.g., herniated intervertebral disc], single segment; lumbar [including transfacet, or lateral extraforaminal approach] [e.g., far lateral herniated intervertebral disc]) and 63047 (Laminectomy, facetectomy and foraminotomy [unilateral or bilateral [...]