AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 4 (April)
Surgery: Nervous System (Q&A) (April 2016)
April 2016 page 8c Surgery: Nervous System Question: Does the removal of 25% of the vertebral body of C4 and 25% of the vertebral body of C5 meet the 50% threshold required to report CPT code 63081, Vertebral corpectomy (vertebral body resection), partial or complete, anterior approach with decompression of spinal cord and/or nerve root(s); cervical, single segment? Answer: No, the code descriptors for vertebral corpectomies (63081-63091) state "partial or complete"; therefore, the entire vertebral body does not need to be removed. For vertebral corpectomy, the term partial is used to describe the removal of a substantial portion of...
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