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Often, a physician will decide to perform a subchondroplasty during arthroscopic joint surgery to treat subchondral bone defects (microfractures). A version of this article was first published April 1 ...

Per CPT Assistant guidance, the 22851 code for cages is only to be billed once per spinal interspace area. Thus, if the physician inserts two cages at level L3-4 and one cage at level L4-5, bill the ...

A Haglund’s deformity can be referred to by a number of different names such as bony enlargement, prominent bump, pump bump, or retrocalcaneal exostosis. Just as confusing is how an excision of the ...

CMS has revised the July 2016 policy for same-day, same-eyelid blepharoplasty and ptosis surgery. The new policy, which went into effect Oct. 1, 2017, allows surgeons to bill patients for a cosmetic ...