Wiki Dx for bone graft

[JWINGES]

I was hoping that someone might be able to give me a dx code for a bone graft having a hard time locating one??? I guess my brain is sleeping still

 

[ammontagano]

Did you mean the procedure code for a bone graft instead?

 

[JWINGES]

no the diagnosis to associate witht the procedure code I have a procedure code of 20902

 

[ammontagano]

What type of surgery did the pt have? You would use the dx code associated with the surgery. A better question would be...why did the pt have a bone graft and for what part of the body?

 

[JWINGES]

Pt had removal of hardware ankle and needed to be filled.

 

[ammontagano]

I am assuming that the pt had an ankle fx that needed internal fixation. Did the doc say that the fx was healed, was it a non-union, a malunion, in other words, what was the problem that caused an area of the ankle to have a void in it that needed a bone graft?

 

[JWINGES]

Removal of painful and broken hardware

 

[ammontagano]

I would go with 996.4 and V54.01

 

[JWINGES]

thanks