I have just a general question I guess: My doctor states he did a L4-5 bilateral laminectomy, facetectomy and foraminotomy for spinal stenosis decompression. I am kind of in a debate here with another coder and I think that it should be coded as:
63047 only since the physician is only decompressing the nerve root at that level.
My co worker states that it should be billed as: 63047 and 63048 since the cpt book states per segement.
Can anyone help me out here? I would really appreciate it very much and if there is any documentation out there I would greatly appreciate that as well!
Thank you in advance!
63047 only since the physician is only decompressing the nerve root at that level.
My co worker states that it should be billed as: 63047 and 63048 since the cpt book states per segement.
Can anyone help me out here? I would really appreciate it very much and if there is any documentation out there I would greatly appreciate that as well!
Thank you in advance!