Urology Coding Alert

Test your coding skills with this complicated operative report. Bladder neck surgeries are commonplace for many urologists. But just because your urologist performs many of these procedures, that doesn't mean the coding is a piece of cake. For example: Do you know how to report a Leadbetter -Tenago operation? See how your coding stacks up with the experts' by testing your hand at coding this case study from Jo Ann Hawtrey, CPC, CUC, financial analyst at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Department of Urology in Iowa City. Review the Surgical Case Operative report: The female patient was then sterilely prepped and draped in the usual fashion. An incision was made through the previous Pfannenstiel incision, carried down to the level of the rectus fascia, which was incised transversely and elevated off the bellies of the rectus muscle, which were split in the midline and the bladder was exposed. [...]