Wiki Bowel Resection vs Incarcerated Hernia repair

[mjewett]

If a provider during a hernia repair finds that the incarcerated bowel is ischemic, so in turn performs a small bowel resection. Is it appropriate to bill only bowel resection? Or is bowel resection inclusive to the incarcerated hernia repair code?

For example: Femoral Hernia Repair incarcerated 49553 vs 44120


Thanks,

 

[cwpierce]

You will be fine billing for both. You have seperate Dx's which will support your codes and there are no NCCI Edits for these codes so you should be good.

 

[mjewett]

Thank you