Jenlyn
Guest
The physician initially attempted to perform lung biopsy via thorascopic approach, but due to multiple lesions, it was not amenable to perform the VAT biopsy. Therefore a thoracotomy/wedge resection of the lung was performed. Would you bill for the attempted thorascopic biopsy with the code 32650-59, and then the wedge resection with code 32500? Or would you only bill the open procedure, code 32500?