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Hello everyone and thank you in advance for reading this.
I am confused between 41010 & 41520 and I'm not sure if I'm coding them correctly.
For instance, I coded 41010 for this report:
"We then incised the frenulum down to the floor of mouth, furtherrelease into a diamond shape was created using just blunt dissection. After
this was achieved, we then closed the wound. We used some 4-0 chromic sutures
to coapt the wound edges."
I coded 41520 for this one:
"A cautery device was used to incise the lingual frenum to the base of tongue with care not to injure the submandibular duct openings. The mucosal edges were reapproximated with interrupted 3-0 chromic sutures generating a horizontal and vertical frenuloplasty."
For this report I am about to use 41010:
"The frenulum was cut with a needle-tip cautery back to the level just posterior
to the submandibular duct openings. We then closed the diamond shaped defect
using 2 interrupted 4-0 chromic sutures."
I am just unsure about the instances wherein to use said codes!
I am confused between 41010 & 41520 and I'm not sure if I'm coding them correctly.
For instance, I coded 41010 for this report:
"We then incised the frenulum down to the floor of mouth, furtherrelease into a diamond shape was created using just blunt dissection. After
this was achieved, we then closed the wound. We used some 4-0 chromic sutures
to coapt the wound edges."
I coded 41520 for this one:
"A cautery device was used to incise the lingual frenum to the base of tongue with care not to injure the submandibular duct openings. The mucosal edges were reapproximated with interrupted 3-0 chromic sutures generating a horizontal and vertical frenuloplasty."
For this report I am about to use 41010:
"The frenulum was cut with a needle-tip cautery back to the level just posterior
to the submandibular duct openings. We then closed the diamond shaped defect
using 2 interrupted 4-0 chromic sutures."
I am just unsure about the instances wherein to use said codes!