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hemiarthroplasty

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    Wiki Shoulder- Removal of failed hemi - to a total shoulder

    I am not sure which way to code this one. The patient had a hemi arthroplasty and it failed so they decided to remove the hemi and do a total shoulder. There are no conversion codes and even if there were I don't know if it would apply here because the humeral was a revision and the glenoid was...
    • kmuth
    • Thread
    • conversion hemiarthroplasty orthopaedic total shoulder
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Orthopaedics
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    Wiki Hemiarthroplasty to Total Knee Replacement

    I am trying to make sure that I code this correctly. My doctor treated a patient that had a previous hemi several years ago by doing a total knee. He removed the hemi components and replaced with total knee components. He turned in 27447 for the total knee but I am thinking that I need to code...
    • ndguenther
    • Thread
    • hemiarthroplasty revision total knee total knee
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Orthopaedics
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    Wiki Second fracture during global

    Please help.....I have two patients with essentially the same procedures. Patient had hemiarthroplasty for femur neck fracture (27236). Two weeks later, patient falls and has greater trochanteric fracture. Procedure performed "ORIF greater trochanteric fracture with revision of...
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