GJackson
Networker
Does anyone bill for incidental appendectomies? Example: Patient has a Ladds procedure with an incidental appendectomy. There is no documented diagnosis to support why we performed the appy. So, would you bill a +44955 in addition to the 44055 for the Ladds procedure. Or does the 44955 indicate that we would need a 540.9 inorder to bill it? What if we used a diagnosis for v code for prophylactic organ removal? We have never billed these and it was suggested that we might be missing revenue by not capturing these. Thanks for reading!