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Wiki Aborted placement of penile prosthesis

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We have a patient who was going to have a penile prosthesis inserted, however when the surgeon was dilating the corporotomies, a perforation happened and the procedure was aborted. Does he get to charge for the dilation and if so, which code?
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Assuming it was a inflatable prosthesis the provider was attempting to perform, you would report the usual cpt code, which would be 54405 and add a modifier 53, assuming it was done in the office.
If the patient was placed under anesthesia, and it was done in a in-patient or outpatient hospital setting, ASC, you would refer to the modifier 73 or 74.
 
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