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Flap Creation to Prevent Adhesion to Abdominal Wall
Can I separately bill for an omental flap or peritoneal flap when the surgeon performs the flap to prevent adhesion to the abdominal wall after a hernia repair or colon resection?
Amount of Lamina Removed for a Laminectomy
I'm pretty new to neurosurgery coding and could use some help. Is there a specific amount or percentage of lamina that must be removed in order to code 63047?
Performing Endoscopy at the Request of Another Provider
If another provider, not in the same group, asks that I do an endoscopy prior to tube placement, and they place the tube, can I separately report the endoscopy?
Instrumentation Removal vs. Exploration
My coder told me that if spinal instrumentation is removed and exploration performed but nothing else done, we would code for exploration but not for the removal of instrumentation. Why wouldn't we bill instrumentation removal vs. exploration?
Incident-To Billing for Medicare
I was told for our Medicare patients in order for my PA to report incident-to the physician, that the supervising physician must be in the office. Is that correct? We are billing new and established patients under a physician’s NPI number even if there is no physician in the office
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