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Strengthen Skull-Base Coding by Identifying Whether Surgeon Performed Approach, Definitive, or Repair/Reconstruction Procedure

Published on Mon Aug 12, 2019

Submit 61618 or 61619 for secondary repair/reconstruction of surgical defects of the skull base. Surgeons commonly perform skull base surgery to remove and/or treat a lesion, such as cancerous tissue, vascular malformation or aneurysm, from the undersurface of the brain. “A principle of skull base surgery is to remove bone in order to create an access pathway that reduces the [...]
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