Becker's ASC

Surgery Center Coding Guidance: Cages Used in Spine Surgery

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 ...
Becker's ASC

Surgery Center Coding Guidance: Spinal Arthrodesis Techniques

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 ...
BioWorld

Inosys Korea gains FDA nod for 3D-printed cervical spine cage

Inosys Korea Co. Ltd. gained U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for Unispace, a cervical spine cage manufactured with 3D printing technology. Unispace can be used during spinal fusion surgery, Busan-based ...
WGN Radio

Spine surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Carlson implants first of its kind intervertebral cage for minimally invasive spinal fusion surgery

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, November 11, 2022, spine surgeon Jeffrey R. Carlson, MD, of Orthopaedic & Spine Center, performed the first implant of the Align Peek T/PLIF ...