Hello,
I just received a denial from Medicare on codes 22585, 22614 for LCD's. We pull up the list of LCD's from Medicare and the only diagnosis codes listed are for cervical and thoracic? No lumbar codes are listed at all and 22585 is specific to that part of the spine.
Our physician did a 3 level ALIF and a 3 level posterolateral lumbar spinal fusion so I am no idea how to even assign a correct LCD when the codes Medicare gave are strictly cervical
Has this happened to anyone? any advice on how to handle this denial?
The updated LCD from Medicare is Article A59624
Thank you
I just received a denial from Medicare on codes 22585, 22614 for LCD's. We pull up the list of LCD's from Medicare and the only diagnosis codes listed are for cervical and thoracic? No lumbar codes are listed at all and 22585 is specific to that part of the spine.
Our physician did a 3 level ALIF and a 3 level posterolateral lumbar spinal fusion so I am no idea how to even assign a correct LCD when the codes Medicare gave are strictly cervical
Has this happened to anyone? any advice on how to handle this denial?
The updated LCD from Medicare is Article A59624
Thank you
