Wiki Knee Revision question

[ahodge90]

I have a provider that revised an instable total knee. He ended up revising the entire femoral component, added posterior and distal augmentation lugs, and then only revised the tibial poly. Does this mean that I would be correct to bill this as 27487? Or should I add a 52 because he only revised the poly on the tibia component?

 

[Orthocoderpgu]

Question: Did the surgeon take out the femoral component and put another in? Or did they just add lugs to the implant for stabilization?

 

[ahodge90]

He did remove the femur component and revised to a different size femoral component. he says he sized to a size 8 oxinum femur.

 

[Orthocoderpgu]

My computer crashed and I lost a bunch of material. I know that with the hip revision that if you replace the femoral component and the poly they have you bill the revision with a -52. That seems to fit here as well.

 

[ahodge90]

thank you!