Wiki ERCP-multiple stents exchanged with one new placement

[jjamerino]

Hello there,

We have a case where 5 stents were exchanged in the common bile duct along with one new stent. So, a total of 6 new stents were placed. How should this be coded since it was all in the common bile duct? 43276x5 or 43274x6?

Thanks for your help!

 

[kwitts81]

I wish we had an answer!!

we came across this same scenario today but it was one stent out 2 stents in the same duct so we questioned
43276 73274-59
43276 73276-52-59
43276
73276 73276-59
overall we cam up with no definite help but chose to be safe and go with just a 73276