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Look for Laminectomy in Dural Repair Procedures
Published on Thu Feb 25, 2016
Question: How do you code a traumatic dural repair? This dural tear is not iatrogenic. Can we also submit code for the microscope separately? Alaska Subscriber Answer: If the dural tear is intracranial, it is most likely associated with a fracture and you may consider the fracture treatment codes. Only CPT® 62010 (Elevation of depressed skull fracture; with repair of dura and/or [...]