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Wound Vac Billing
I’m a general surgeon. Some of my team are reporting the negative pressure wound therapy codes 97605 and 97606 when applying wound vacs after closing at the completion of their surgical…
Balloon Spacer in the Shoulder
Our orthopaedic shoulder surgeon treated a patient with two massive rotator cuff tears that were not amenable to repair. Due to patient age, the patient would not withstand a reconstructive…
Reconstruction of the ATFL and CFL
Our foot and ankle surgeon performed a reconstruction of the ATFL and the CFL ligament in the left leg for a chronic injury. We are looking at CPT codes and wondering if we should be…
Barbotage Procedure
We recently employed a new sports medicine physician and met with her about the type of procedures she will be performing in the office. We are comfortable with most of them but have…
Bronchoscopy with Direct Laryngoscopy
I’m trying to figure out when I can bill for both a direct laryngoscopy and a bronchoscopy. It seems very confusing so I would appreciate it if you could help.
Denial of Breast Reconstruction
We received a denial for 19357-50 (tissue expander reconstruction) and +15777 x 2 units. The denial reason was “the diagnosis code and CPT code combination is inappropriate”. We used
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