Here are five tips for billing and coding for spine procedures at surgery centers from National Medical Billing Service’s Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton. 1. Obtain correct physician ...

In the past couple of years there have been numerous changes made to the code sets for reporting arthrodesis techniques, instrumentation and bone grafts versus biomechanical devices so let’s review ...

Payers have historically treated spine surgery as a default hospital procedure, but that assumption is increasingly at odds with clinical reality. Advances in minimally invasive techniques, enhanced ...

The way spine surgeons manage their cases has been largely shaped by one persistent hurdle: prior authorization. The extra steps that come with prior authorizations and potential denials have made ...