Neurosurgery Coding Alert

Surgery:

Extract Every Detail from Notes to Code Excision, Osteotomy

Do you know which procedure is for spinal realignment? Two surgical procedures your provider might perform are vertebral excision and osteotomy. Though both surgeries may deal with similar components of the spine, they are different for coding purposes. How? There are different codes for the surgeries, as well as add-on codes to consider. If you don’t know what you’re doing, [...]
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