Vol. XI, No. 6Archive > June, 2010

Coding & Billing

Spine Surgery Coding Simplified

Kim Pollock, RN, MBA, CPC

Spine surgery can be a complex, confusing specialty to code. Rather than selecting a single code that describes the whole operation, your coders must adopt an a la carte approach to coding spine cases. It's not uncommon for 5 different types of codes to be reported during a single spine operation. And depending on the extent of the surgery, there could be 10 or 12 CPT codes.

 
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