kevans0409
New
I have an arthroscopic knee surgery that I need some help from an auditor's viewpoint. Patient had 29880 and 29873 and there are no bundling edits between these 2 CPT codes. The diagnosis is where my dilemma lies. There were derangements of the medial and lateral meniscus: ICD10 M23.304 and M23.301. The patient also had Ankylosis M24.662. Under ICD10 guidelines, M24.662 should not be coded with M23.xxx (derangement). I had linked M23.304 M23.301 to 29880; I linked M24.662 with 29873 for the anklyosis in the PF compartment (Note: the doctor also uses terms of scar tissue and fibrosis). Since this surgery pertained to 2 separate CPT, would it be correct to keep M24.662 with the 29873. Meniscectomies and the conditions involved with them is not why the doctor had to performed the lateral release.