Wiki Mini Lap

[kterry0474]

Our doctor is going to do a mini-laparotomy on patient with unilateral ovarian cystectomy and removal of a uterine mass. We need authorization so we have to send something over just not sure what.

Thank you in advance!

 

[csperoni]

58925 for your ovarian cystectomy. For the "removal of uterine mass", it may depend on what that mass is. If it's a fibroid, I would use 58140. If it's not a fibroid, I would be stumped and might have to go unlisted 58999. If it were me and this is just for precert purposes, I would just use the 58925. Or 58925 and 58140 if I were being overly cautious. I can't recall ever having an issue if we needed to perform additional procedures that were not precert. Wait, maybe once with United Healthcare Community Medicaid.