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Count Incisions in Brain Tumor Removal

Published on Mon Jun 10, 2013

Question: If our surgeon does a craniectomy with 1 bone flap and does separate incisions under that bone flap for removal of an occipital and a parietal tumor, can we bill only 1 unit of 61510 (Craniectomy, trephination, bone flap craniotomy; for excision of brain tumor, supratentorial, except meningioma)?

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