A facetectomy is a surgical procedure on the spine to remove one or both facet joints of a vertebra. Surgery aims to release pressure on a trapped nerve and reduce pain. Facets are bony ...

Medically reviewed by Eva Umoh Asomugha, M.D. 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 ...

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

In this edition of Spine Surgery Today, Teri Romano, RN, MBA, CPC, and Kim Pollock, RN, MBA, CPC, provide readers with more coding tips to answer the billing challenges in spine practices ...

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 ...

Current and Future Approaches to Lumbar Disc Surgery (A Literature Review). MedGenMed 1(1), 1999 [formerly published in Medscape Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine eJournal 1(6), 1997]. Available at ...

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

Baxano, Inc., a Silicon Valley based medical device company and manufacturer of the iO-Flex® System utilized in spinal decompression surgery, announce ...