Question

A 47 year-old female presents to the or for a partial corpectomy to three thoracic vertebrae. one surgeon performs the transthoracic approach while another surgeon performs the three vertebral nerve root decompressions necessary. how should each provider involved code their portion of the surgery?

Answer 1

Answer: 63085-62, 63086-62 x 2

CPT code is used for coding a procedure. In this question, there is a transthoracic approach and three vertebral nerve root decompressions.
The code 63085 is used for a transthoracic approach while 63086 used to code the decompression procedure.
Modifier code 62 used because there is more than one surgeon working at this operation.