dms979
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I have questions on a corpectomy report and would appreciate the help
Anterior cervical decompression & fusion with corpectomy
1. C6 corpectomy with greater than 75 % of vertebral body removed
2. C7 hemi Corpectomy with less than 50% of vertebral body removed
3. C5-C7 anterior instrumentation and fusion
4. C5-C7 interbody peek cage placement
5. microscope for microdissection
6. Harvesting of local bone for autograft
I coded
63081 for corpectomy
22554 C5 C6
22585 C6 C7
22845 instrumentation
69990 microscope
22851 cage C5-C7
29036 graft
I'm confused on the hemi corpectomy I know more than 50% has to be documented to code the corpectomy and this is less than 50%at the C7 level how would you code this?
truly appreciate the help
Anterior cervical decompression & fusion with corpectomy
1. C6 corpectomy with greater than 75 % of vertebral body removed
2. C7 hemi Corpectomy with less than 50% of vertebral body removed
3. C5-C7 anterior instrumentation and fusion
4. C5-C7 interbody peek cage placement
5. microscope for microdissection
6. Harvesting of local bone for autograft
I coded
63081 for corpectomy
22554 C5 C6
22585 C6 C7
22845 instrumentation
69990 microscope
22851 cage C5-C7
29036 graft
I'm confused on the hemi corpectomy I know more than 50% has to be documented to code the corpectomy and this is less than 50%at the C7 level how would you code this?
truly appreciate the help