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Wiki Anterior approach cervical fracture below odontoid

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The physician is treating a C6 fx with an anterior approach. Per parenthetical note in CPT, page 113, "for treatment of vertebral fracture by the anterior apprach, see corpectomy 63081-63091, and appropriate arthrodesis, bone graft and instrumentation codes" Surgeon did perform anterior interbody cervical fusion at C6-C7, with spinal instrumentation and bone graft, but did not perform a corpectomy. Per CPT, should I still be billing a corpectomy code to capture the open fracture treatment in addition to the codes for the fusion, instrumentation, and graft? Or is that only when a corpectomy is performed?
 
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