CPT^® 27365, Under Excision Procedures on the Femur (Thigh Region) and Knee Joint

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 27365 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Excision Procedures on the Femur (Thigh Region) and Knee Joint.

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In this procedure, the provider removes a tumor from the femur or knee, typically to treat cancer or diagnose potential malignancies.

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Base code for 20932

FYI: 20932 is limited to these codes as the primary per CPT in the Code First instructions: 23210, 23220, 24150, 25170, 27075-27077, 27365, 27645, 27704 This is [U]not[/U] a spine-only reported all... [ Read More ]

Intercalary Endoprosthetic Femur Reconstruction

Without seeing the Operative Procedure Report, diagnoses, etc., and not being an Orthopedic Oncologist, I am not certain what help I can give you, but I will try. As I understand Intercalary Endopros... [ Read More ]

Revision of Total Knee Arthroplasty with Radical Resection of distal femur

Does anyone know what code to use for a Radical Resection of Distal Femur? My physician was leaning towards using 27365. The pt. also had a fracture femur shaft cpt code 27507 along with the 27487 r... [ Read More ]

Pathologic Fracture

My Encoder Pro states the following: Prophylactic treatment is performed to prevent injury or fracture of diseased bone. [I][/I][U]Therefore, 27495 should not be reported when a fracture is being tr... [ Read More ]

Bundling of cpt 11981?

Although I don't see any NCCI edits that would disallow billing CPT 11981 when also billing CPT 24150, CPT 27365 or CPT 27487, Aetna is bundling this code into those three services. They are not allo... [ Read More ]

need help with this procedure please

Good morning everybody, i have this patient who has DISTAL LEFT FEMUR EWINGS SARCOMA had RESECTION OF DISTAL LEFT FEMUR TUMOR AND IMPLANTATION OF PROSTHESIS Procedures:GA SUPINE POSITION SCRUBBI... [ Read More ]

Help w/Distal Femur Replacement w/hinged TKA

I really need help with this case because timely filing is an issue with this one. The surgeon feels it should be coded: 27487-22 27365-59 76000-26 I don't agree with 27365-59. At the most, I co... [ Read More ]

Modified brostrom cpt code

Yes, I would report 27698 (Brostrum) and 27635 (NOT 27640-unless it's for osteomyelitis and significant excision of bone; for excision of exostosis use 27365 (tib. or fib.) per CPT note under the 276... [ Read More ]

Argon Beam Ablation

This sounds like 27365... [ Read More ]

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