• 1 Part 1: Carefully Applying Codes and Modifiers Eases Payment for Facet Joint Injections

• 2 Medicare Update: Retroactive Revisions Could Increase Your Payments

• 3 Solve the Ommaya Reservoir Mystery

• 4 News Brief: Look for Revised Place-of-Service Indicators in 2003

• 5 Reader Questions: Decompression With Bone Graft

• 6 Reader Questions: Multilevel Decompression

• 7 Reader Questions: Syrinx Diagnosis

• 8 Reader Questions: Retroperitoneal Schwannoma Removal

• 9 Reader Questions: Team Surgery

• 10 Reader Questions: Billing for Treatment to Relatives

• 11 You be the Coder: Arthrodesis and Separate Decompression