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Patient's diagnosis is lumbosacral disc herniation. Can someone tell me what is the CPT code for lumbosacral micro diskectomy?

63047 is it right??

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No,It is not correct. It is laminectomy which includes foraminotmy, facetectomy but not discectomy. Please see 22224 with care of approach if only discectomy is done.
 
Code 22224 is for an osteotomy, this would not be a correct code. There really is not enough detail to give you a totally correct code. If the surgeon is doing a minimally invasive discectomy it would be 63030. If they are doing a micro disc decompression the correct code would be 62287, (which most insurance companies dont cover as they are considered investigationl. Also, please note that there is a new neurology/neurosurgical forum. You may want to post questions regarding neurosurgy to this forum in the future to get mor responses. Thank you!
 
Lumbosacral microdiskectomy was performed for a protruded lumbosacral disk herniation, which also had a subligamentous extrusion.

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