Wiki Cpt 75310/72170

[jgossett]

This time of year, with people falling on the ice, I am getting a lot of radiology reports for er treatment of hip and pelvis x-rays. Many are seperate reports for each patient encounter. One showing a right hip x-ray with no mention of the pelvis, and another showing an AP of the pelvis. The way I understand the definition of 75310, it is for the unilateral view of the hip and an AP of the pelvis. I have been coding this 75310-52 since there is no mention of the pelvis.

I have been feeling like this may not be correct but I have exhausted all my local resources and am getting shrugged shoulders. What other opinions are out there? How would you handle these?

 

[srinivas r sajja]

73500 for single view hip

 

[RADCODER]

You can bill these two codes if both a 1vw Hip and Pelvis were done.
73500 Hip 1vw
72170 Pelvis 1 or 2vw

Perhaps you are thinking of..
73520 Bilateral Hips minimum 2vws of each hip, including AP view of Pelvis.

(There is no 75310 CPT code)

Hope this helps!

 

[cjacobs]

So if you have an AP Pelvis with a Lateral right hip.....how would you bill?