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Try Your Hand at Coding This Hernia Repair Case

Published on Thu May 09, 2024

Question: What are the correct surgical and anesthesia codes, modifiers, and diagnosis codes to report for the following case? Anesthesia: General; ASA II
Post-op diagnosis: Incarcerated upper quadrant ventral hernia
Procedure: Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair Op report: 36-year-old female with initial repair of 6 cm incarcerated ventral hernia. A small incision was made near hernia defect and a trocar [...]
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