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CPT® 61343, Under Craniectomy or Craniotomy Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 61343 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Craniectomy or Craniotomy Procedures.

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In this procedure, the provider removes a small portion of the occipital bone at the back of the skull including the back of the upper one or two cervical vertebrae to relieve pressure on the medulla, or brain stem, and spinal cord. The provider may have to open and expand the dura by suturing in place a dural graft. The goal of this procedure is to reduce or eliminate compression of the spinal cord.

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Does anyone know if there is a rule where you can only bill cpt code 61343 -Craniectomy, suboccipital with cervical laminectomy for decompression of medulla and spinal cord, with or without dural gra... [ Read More ]
Chiari 1 malformation
Hope someone can help with CPT codes. Patient had a suboccipital craniectomy for Chiari malformation(61343) with arachnoid ectomy(there was a fair amount of arachnoid olverlying the tonsils which we... [ Read More ]
Chiari decompression (61343)
Our surgeon performed a Chiari Decompression (61343) with a pericranial autograft patch from a seperate scalp incision. Based on the coding description for 61343 the graft is included. The physician... [ Read More ]
Shrinkage of cerebellar tonsils
I am a certified Urology coder and am helping the Pediatric Neurosurgery department until they hire a coder. The child has Chiari 1 Malformation and provider is performing a suoccipital creniectomy... [ Read More ]
Neurosurger - re-exploration with removal graft
Please, any help with this would be greatly appreciated. The physician gave me code 61343 for this, but I think if this was used I would have to use a reduced service modifier on this. If not then a... [ Read More ]
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