Concerning disc replacement. My doctors office said the CPT code they would use for my insurance company is 22899(unlisted procedure). It was my understanding that they were suppose to use 0091T(Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement), but the billing director said that insurance companies usually did not recognize t-codes. Does anyone know why this is? I was hoping that the procedure receiving a CPT code from the AMA would make it more likely to gain approval from insurance copanies and that is still my hope. Does anyone have any more information on this? What CPT codes were used for those of you who did receive approval from your insuarance companies?
Michael
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