dlashua
Networker
Hi,
I swear corpectomy coding is going to be the death of me! If anyone has a system/method they use would you be willing to share it? I think these procedures give me anxiety.
My current method is:
Drawing a picture of the affected area of the spine. Coloring the primary location and then coloring the disc space above and below. Corpectomy piece done - Then I color where the graft is placed - Yea!! Graft in - then and this is where I encounter problems..........arthrodesis/fusion - what to do? Can you bill it? Should you bill it? I think you can and should but I ALWAYS question myself. I think I am getting hung up on the wording of the codes because it includes discectomy BUT the discectomies are done as part of the corpectomy..............UGH.........H E L P -
Thank you,
Doss
I swear corpectomy coding is going to be the death of me! If anyone has a system/method they use would you be willing to share it? I think these procedures give me anxiety.
My current method is:
Drawing a picture of the affected area of the spine. Coloring the primary location and then coloring the disc space above and below. Corpectomy piece done - Then I color where the graft is placed - Yea!! Graft in - then and this is where I encounter problems..........arthrodesis/fusion - what to do? Can you bill it? Should you bill it? I think you can and should but I ALWAYS question myself. I think I am getting hung up on the wording of the codes because it includes discectomy BUT the discectomies are done as part of the corpectomy..............UGH.........H E L P -
Thank you,
Doss