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    Wiki How would you code?

    Indications for surgery: This is a chronic degenerative shoulder The preprocedural timeout was successfully completed. After regional anesthesia had been induced the patient was placed in the table in a beachchair position. The shoulder was prepped and draped in a sterile fashion...
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    Wiki CPT 29823 vs 29822 & 29826

    What is the correct way to code the below op report? 29823 or 29822 with 29826? I'm thinking 29823 but am unsure. Thanks in advance! POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Left shoulder stiffness with partial-thickness tear of the rotator cuff with grade 2 to 3 chondromalacia of the glenoid and a...
    • MI_CODER
    • Thread
    • 29822 29823 29826 arthroscopy shoulder shoulder arthroscopy
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Orthopaedics
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    Wiki CPT: Distal Coplaning with Subacromial Decompression

    "Distal Coplaning and with Subacromial Decompression" for treatment of Impingement Syndrome Summary of Procedures: Soft tissue was used to skeletonize the undersurface of the acromion 4.5 mm barrel was then used to remove 5 to 7 mm of the bone off the anterior and lateral border from the...
    • KStaten
    • Thread
    • 29822 29823 29824 29826 acromioplasty clavicle coplaning cpt shoulder
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Orthopaedics
  4. KStaten

    Wiki Mini-Open Rotator Cuff Repair with Arthroscopic Shoulder Procedures... Possible to Bill?

    Hello Everyone, I know this is a repeated question that frequently finds its way on this forum (apologies)... but, as with many coding scenarios, there seem to be mixed answers / solutions. Or, perhaps, I am misinterpreting it, which is also entirely possible. From what I have read, the...
    • KStaten
    • Thread
    • 23412 29823 29826 arthroscopic mini-open repair rotator
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Orthopaedics
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    Wiki CPT 29826 not getting paid with 23412 and 29824

    Is anyone having a hard time getting paid for add on code 29826 when performed with the rotator cuff repair (23412) even if 29824 is also billed? I have been unsuccessful, mainly with Aetna, which I could not find a CPB for rotator cuff surgery. First the surgeon performs the arthroscopic...
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    Wiki arthroscopic debridement w/decompression + OPEN Cuff repair (+29826 23412 CCI edit)

    Codes in question: 29823 +29826 and 23412 (arthroscopic debridement +decompression and OPEN Cuff repair) 23412 and +29826 are producing a CCI edit The arthroscopic PARENT procedure code (29823) does NOT have a CCI edit with add-on code +29826 (decompression of subacromial space), and the...
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