IRISHCODER
Networker
My physician is planning a Laparoscopic Lumbar Interbody Fusion for a patient. I am providing codes for prior auth on the surgery. I know the actual Arthrodesis and Interbody Device, etc codes, but I'm not sure how to convey that the procedure is being done Laparoscopically rather than open. It is being done at one level for degenerative disc disease and lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus. Do I make the distinction afterwards, when the surgery is coded for submission to insurance? A modifier attached to the Arthrodesis? I'd appreciate your opinions. Thanks!