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Harrison,
Aetna gave me a CTP code of 22857 for the lumbar ADR surgery but did not give me the detail Kim O has supplied. My company employs a Health Advocate. The nurse assigned to my case is researching surgeons that use lumbar ADR technology.
It's amazing how quickly the cervical implant has become accepted treatment.
We're trying to get a 2 level cervical ADR for my wife. We're trying to get her squeezed into an ongoing trial with an already approved (at single level) disc. It looks like that'll happen before I get anywhere with a stateside multilevel lumbar surgery.
Bob
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04/06 L5/S1 Rupture
05/06 MRI shows DDD @ L2-S1
06/06 Diskectomy/ Laminotomy L5/S1
04/07 Recurrent Disc L5/S1
4 Ortho and 1 Neuro Surgeon, 5 MRIs, 1 EGM, 1 Myleogram & 11 EDIs later:
03/27/09 L4/5 & L5/S1 Maverick disc at Stenum
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