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Laminectomy 101:

Brush Up On Your Laminectomy Know-How For Spinal Coding Success

Published on Mon Aug 20, 2018

Remember: Report +63048 in conjunction with 63045 through 63047. You learned about laminotomies to stay one step ahead of herniated disc excision errors in your practice in Neurosurgery Coding Alert Vol. 19, No. 6. And, while reporting a laminotomy, you may have also come across a similar sounding term — a laminectomy. During laminotomies, the neurosurgeon removes the upper and [...]
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