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Wiki flex sig vs. colonoscopy

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Patient was scheduled for a flexible sigmoidoscopy. The provider was able to reach the transverse colon before running into solid stool. He also had some biopsies. This was done for rectal bleeding, not screening.
My question - bill as a flex sig w/biopsies? Or a colonoscopy w/biopsies and modifer 53 since didn't get past the transverse colon?
 
If the intended procedure was a colonoscopy that could not be completed, you would code the colonoscopy with a 53 modifier.

If the provider went all the way to the transverse colon, that doesn't sound like a sigmoidoscopy due to the provider going past it.
 
LisaAlonso23 said:
If the intended procedure was a colonoscopy that could not be completed, you would code the colonoscopy with a 53 modifier.

If the provider went all the way to the transverse colon, that doesn't sound like a sigmoidoscopy due to the provider going past it.
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the intended procedure was sigmoidoscopy, but he was able to go further than the sigmoid. So I'm not sure if I am billing sigmoid or incomplete colonoscopy
 
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