Wiki Meniscectomies with synovectomies

[Amzie]

Ok need some help please! Our doctors usually perform procedures like medial and lateral meniscectomies with a tricompartment synovectomy. We would usually bill a 29876 for the patella, 29880-59.
But we are starting to question it since the RVU's for 29876 are higher than 29880 and in order to unbundle this you would have to append the 59 to 29876 which would be the primary code!!
Any advice on how to proceed with this? Any thoughts and references would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance

 

[nyyankees]

Ok need some help please! Our doctors usually perform procedures like medial and lateral meniscectomies with a tricompartment synovectomy. We would usually bill a 29876 for the patella, 29880-59.
But we are starting to question it since the RVU's for 29876 are higher than 29880 and in order to unbundle this you would have to append the 59 to 29876 which would be the primary code!!
Any advice on how to proceed with this? Any thoughts and references would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance

You can't report 29880 + 29876 together as there are only 3 knee compartments. 29876 represents 2 or more compartments. I would bill 29875-59 for the patella but since they took 29877 Chondroplasty away carriers are starting to take synovectmies away as well.