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Published on Thu Apr 23, 2015

Confirm laminectomy to get to the right code. When repairing a dural tear, your surgeon may or may not need to perform a laminectomy to access the tear for a repair. Appropriately coding these dural tear procedures will depend on whether the operative note indicates that the surgeon performed a laminectomy and what graft was used, if any, for the [...]
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