CPT^® 63707, Under Repair Procedures on the Spine and Spinal Cord

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 63707 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Repair Procedures on the Spine and Spinal Cord.

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The provider repairs a tear in the dura that causes a cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, leak and can lead to a serious infection. The dura is the tough outer membrane surrounding the central nervous system. This service may be necessary to repair a defect that occurs after spinal or intradural surgery, trauma, or a congenital abnormality.

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Dural Tear Repair

[SIZE=4][B][FONT=arial]PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS:[/FONT][/B] [FONT=arial]Status post repair of dural tear from an extensive instrumented posterior spine fusion down at another facility with a persistent ... [ Read More ]

Foraminotomy stand alone procedure

[QUOTE="julyagroves, post: 410838, member: 361653"] [B]Reply from NASS[/B] We submitted this question and the NASS coding Committee recommended that we code a 63045 and 63048 because two nerve roots... [ Read More ]

Help with laminectomy/incidental durotomy coding

Hi! The repair of the dura would not be coded separately. In the NCCI Policy Manual, Chapter 8, section C.12, there is a good guideline to help with this scenario: [I]If a dural (cerebrospinal fluid) ... [ Read More ]

59 modifier - I have an orthopedic practice

I have an orthopedic practice and they used 63709, 63710 and 62351. Which one or do all require a 59 modifier? Incidentally, I think they should have used 63707 instead of 63709.... [ Read More ]

Repair of dural leakage with debridement and cultures

I'm having trouble with coding this correctly. I've found code 63707 for the repair of dural leakage, but am stuck with the codes for debridement and intraoperative cultures. Here is the op note. Also... [ Read More ]

Dura Repair

Patient had a traumatic injury with fracture of C2 & T2 fusion was performed from C2-T6 along with repair of the dura in the thoracic area caused by the thoracic fracture. The dura was repaired with... [ Read More ]

Help with Pain Management - Can anyone tell me what the CPT

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fibrin glue injected into cervical pseudomeningocele

Hello, I could use some help with coding this procedure. The procedure was done in the IVR suite. The cervical pseudomeningocele, created from a recent cervical fusion, was injected with fibrin glue... [ Read More ]

Injection of Fibrin Glue into Pseudomeningocele

[QUOTE="suec, post: 230769, member: 39298"]Hello, I could use some help with coding this procedure. The procedure was done in the IVR suite. The cervical pseudomeningocele, created from a recent ce... [ Read More ]

Injection of Fibrin Glue into Pseudomeningocele

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