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62287 is Inclusive of Decompression

Published on Mon Dec 30, 2013

Question: How is an endoscopic discectomy and decompression of lumbar spinal nerve without laminectomy/lamintomy and/or forminotomy coded? Our physicians are describing the removal of the disc endoscopically, transforminal or through the forminal space and at the same time are doing a lateral discectomy but not performing a laminectomy or forminotomy actually entering the disk percutanously for removal. Then they used [...]
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