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Wiki Lateral release with Facetectomy ??

Thread starter Orthocoderpgu
Start date Jan 29, 2015

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Orthocoderpgu

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Jan 29, 2015

Physician did normal lateral release. Afterwards he removed 5mm of bone and performed a lateral facetectomy. Does anyone know if there is a code for this? Or if this is unlisted what the compare code would be? Thanks for your help.

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