A facetectomy is a spine surgery to remove one or both facet joints of a vertebra. Surgery aims to release pressure on a trapped nerve and reduce pain.

A facetectomy is a spinal surgical procedure for people who experience moderate to severe pain as a result of an impinged (pinched) spinal nerve. The pain may be the result of conditions such as ...

CPT 63030, Laminotomy (hemilaminectomy), with decompression of nerve root (s), including partial facetectomy, foraminotomy and/or excision of herniated intervertebral disk; one interspace, lumbar ...

Coding expert Stephanie Ellis discusses important 2012 CPT coding changes to spine and pain management procedures performed in ambulatory surgery centers.

Medial facetectomy The medial facetectomy with laminotomy or hemilaminectomy may provide adequate access to proximal foraminal lesions, particularly at the L5–S1 level (Figures 5 and 6).

A foraminotomy is surgery to widen nerve openings in the spine to relieve pain and pressure. Read about the procedure, recovery, outlook, and risks.

Researchers in this study found partial lateral patellar facetectomy in patients with predominant lateral patellofemoral osteoarthritis successfully relieved pain and delayed the need for total ...

Question: I performed a one-level hemi-laminectomy with a facetectomy and foraminotomy on a patient with lumbar stenosis. Based on CPT code descriptors, should this be billed as 63030 since it was ...

”It will be especially helpful in procedures where the surgeon is trying to minimize the exposure size, such as many of the emerging midline fusion techniques that require a facetectomy.” ...

A small inferior partial laminectomy (and if necessary medial facetectomy) is performed using Kerrison or Cushing rongeurs or a high-speed drill, and the ligamentum flavum incised with an 11 blade ...