Codiing Scenario....
Our patient has lumbar stenosis at L5-S1 level that has previously been fused. Our physician did a take down of lumbar fusion at the L5-S1 with facetectomy at L5-S1 and foraminotomies over the L5 and S1 nerve roots. Would you code this as 63047/63048 with modifier 52 or would you code this as 64999? He did not do a laminectomy.
Thanks in advance.
Our patient has lumbar stenosis at L5-S1 level that has previously been fused. Our physician did a take down of lumbar fusion at the L5-S1 with facetectomy at L5-S1 and foraminotomies over the L5 and S1 nerve roots. Would you code this as 63047/63048 with modifier 52 or would you code this as 64999? He did not do a laminectomy.
Thanks in advance.