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I have a doc who did an exploratory lap not knowing what was wrong with the patient. Once in there he did lysis of adhesions a very small amount. He continued with the exp lap. There were no findings to explain what was going on with the patient. I can code for both the exp lap and lysis of adhesions?

Tracey
 
lysis of adhesions is not separately reportable with other surgical laparoscopic procedures. In this case, since the procedure is a diagnostic laparoscopy, I have not come across a coding guidance rule that say that lysis of adhesions is not separately reportable. IMHO, you could bill for both.
 
I would bill code 44005- only. Usually you can't bill for lysis of adhesions, but since that was all that was done on this day it is billable. It is possible that the reason for the patient's symptoms (need for exp lap) was pain due to the adhesions.

Melissa
 
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