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My doc did arthroscopically assisted PCL reconstruction and an open posterolateral corner reconstruction. I am confused......I found this question posed on the supercoder w/ ACL and the answer was that they CAN be billed together, however, the cpt book specifically states NOT to bill 29888/29889 with 27427-27429.

Anyone have any experience with these codes?
 
No they cannot be billed together. The scope-assist means that the physician is just viewing the area with the scope. He needs to do the work through the scope to bill a scope code.
 
PLAIDMAN said:
My doc did arthroscopically assisted PCL reconstruction and an open posterolateral corner reconstruction. I am confused......I found this question posed on the supercoder w/ ACL and the answer was that they CAN be billed together, however, the cpt book specifically states NOT to bill 29888/29889 with 27427-27429.

Anyone have any experience with these codes?
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If they're separate ligaments/injuries you CAN. You can not bil 29889 with 27428 when it's the same ligament (i.e. PCL).
 
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