Wiki 11044 & 28113

[cward267]

Report states - down to muscle tendons debrided - using periosteal elevator bone was cleared, using the osteotome the base of the 5th metatarsel was osteotomized and excised - sent to pathology...

Can both codes be billed?

Thanks!

 

[OCD_coder]

Based on your limited information here, I would be leary about billing two separate codes like that. By first impression it appears that the ostectomy was the primary procedure performed and that would be the only code I could defend. Same incision, same anatomical area.