A 47-year-old female presents to the operating room for a partial corpectomy on one upper...

For this scenario, two surgeons are working together, each as a primary surgeon. Therefore, the correct coding requires the use of the modifier -62, which indicates co-surgeons.

The transthoracic approach to excise the damaged portion of the vertebral body is coded with 63087.

The insertion of the bone graft and metal plate is coded with 63088.

Both codes are appended with modifier -62 to indicate that two surgeons worked together as primary surgeons on this case.

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