Laminotomy is similar to laminectomy. However, during laminotomy, a surgeon removes just a small part of the lamina. According to the authors of one 2017 review article, this is a less invasive ...

Let’s say a laminectomy, decompression of the spine, facetectomy of the L2 vertebra for spinal stenosis and laminotomy with excision of the intervertebral disk at L1 for HNP is performed. Since ...

Laminectomy with exploration and/or decompression of spinal ... for thoracic use code 63016 and for lumbar use code 63017. Laminotomy (cervical code 63020 or lumbar code 63030, with the add-on code ...

A lumbar laminectomy is a surgery that treats compression ... If only part of the lamina is removed, it’s called a laminotomy. When one of the laminae is cut, but the rear of the vertebra ...

Laminotomy removes some of the lamina. Laminectomy removes most or all of the lamina. The lamina can be removed at the same time as the diskectomy. Or, you might have it taken out in a separate ...

Aetna also said it would add incidental denials of laminotomy/laminectomy codes 63030, 63042, 63047 and 63048 when these were billed with arthrodesis codes 22633, 22634 or 22612 and not allow ...

The extent of stenosis and attendant degenerative changes dictate whether laminectomy, hemilaminectomy or laminotomy are required along with one of several facet resection options; full ...