Wiki ACDF codes 63075 and 22554 (New coder please help)

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FEHMEEN KHAN

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Good Morning,

Our practice has been using these codes for one level ACDF
63075 :Discectomy, anterior, with decompression of spinal cord and/or nerve root(s),including osteophytectomy; cervical,single interspace.

22554: Arthodesis ,anterior interbody technique,including minimal discectomy to prepare interspace(other than for decompression);cervical below C2.

CPT 2011 states that they cannot be billed together, our physician has doubts, I wanted to make sure that these codes cannot be combined together. Please give me some advice..

Thank You.
 
fehmeenkhan said:
Good Morning,

Our practice has been using these codes for one level ACDF
63075 :Discectomy, anterior, with decompression of spinal cord and/or nerve root(s),including osteophytectomy; cervical,single interspace.

22554: Arthodesis ,anterior interbody technique,including minimal discectomy to prepare interspace(other than for decompression);cervical below C2.

CPT 2011 states that they cannot be billed together, our physician has doubts, I wanted to make sure that these codes cannot be combined together. Please give me some advice..

Thank You.
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That is correct. 22551/22552 have replaced 63075/22554. CPT is very clear about this... you should not report 63075/22554 when performing an anterior cervical discectomy and interbody fusion at the same level. You could report 63075 and 22554 if the discectomy and fusion were performed at different levels.
 
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