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Spinal Surgery:

Code Differently for Arthrodesis for Spinal Deformity

Published on Wed Jun 05, 2024

Knowledge of deformity types will help, too. When a patient reports to the orthopedist for spinal arthrodesis, you’ll need to know whether the surgery was done to correct trauma or to treat a spinal deformity acquired due to disease process. Why? There are a different set of codes for spinal deformity surgery; using other spinal codes will result in miscoding [...]
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