AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 4 (April)
Then and Now: Spine Bone Graft Codes 20930-20938 (April 2012)
April 2012 pages 14-16 Then and Now: Spine Bone Graft Codes 20930-20938 The February 1996 (p 6), November 1999 (p 1), January 2004 (p 27), and February 2008 (p 8) editions of the CPT Assistant updated the reporting of spine surgery bone graft codes 20930-20938. Because the parenthetical instructions and the code descriptions have undergone revisions since CPT 1996, the following "Then and Now" chronicles the use of codes 20930-20938 when: More than one type of bone grafting is performed Multiple spinal-level grafting is performed at the same operative session Modifier 51, Multiple Procedures,should not be appended THEN...
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