Neurological & Orthopaedic SurgeryAmer Medical Association, 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
addition to code Adjunctive CPT Codes agencies are provided and/or family's needs anesthesia artery Arthrodesis Arthroplasty Arthroscopy biopsy bone graft calcaneus Closed treatment closure code for primary complexity conjunction with code Counseling and/or coordination cranial craniotomy debridement decompression dislocation distal E/M services established patient evaluation and management excision external fixation fasciotomy following fifth-digit subclassification graft includes obtaining hospital humerus implant Incision includes obtaining graft inpatient Integumentary System internal or external intracranial intracranial injury Laminectomy lesion diameter levels of E/M List separately lumbar management services manipulation medical decision metacarpophalangeal joint muscle Musculoskeletal System nerve neurostimulator nursing facility Open treatment osteomyelitis Osteotomy patient's and/or family's Physicians typically spend posterior presenting problem(s primary procedure provided consistent providers or agencies Radiologic examination radiological supervision Repair requires these three separate procedure separately in addition skeletal traction subcutaneous supervision and interpretation Surgery surgical synovectomy tendon thoracic three key components tumor ulna Unlisted procedure unspecified