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One of my surgeons had to remove a chicken bone that was lodged in the patients retropharynx. The surgeon first scoped that patient but was unsuccessful in detecting the bone, she then went transcervically and incised down to the the plane just medial to the carotid sheath, entered the retropharynx and removed the bone with her finger. a penrose drain was left in place. My fellow coder and I are going back in forth over what code is correct for the bone extraction 21556 with (52) modifier vs 20100,
any thoughts?
any thoughts?