akappel
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The doc had to remove the gastric band and port. He started the surgery and removed the band laparoscopicly. He could not get to the port. He made a seperate incision to remove the port. This was a very small protion of the procedure. In this senario, would open still trump lap? I coded the lap portion for the removal of the band only.. and have a seperate code for the removal of the port only. I think I should code the entire procedure as lap.. ??