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!