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Wiki Bowel Resection vs Incarcerated Hernia repair

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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


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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.
 
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