The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery worked on two key projects related to CPT coding in July.
The group successfully pushed for the deletion of Medicare Correct Coding Initiative edits for new CPT codes for lumbar decompression for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion and posterior lumbar interbody fusion, according to a July 31 advocacy update email shared with Becker's.
ISASS also developed and submitted new coding change requests for the Barricaid procedure. The formal code change application was sent to the CPT Editorial Panel for a category I code for Implantation of an Annular Device. If approved, the updates will go into effect in 2025.