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Wiki Need help please!!!! 52000 billed with 57287 DENIED

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Ok so I'm working old claims that are reaching timely filing at my office and I'm new to neurology. I have a denial saying that 52000 and 57287 are incidental but according to 3m they are not so is there any modifier that I can use to get these two codes paid also I'm wondering if the coder in our office coded wrong cause during the surgery he used a Foley catheter should that be 52005 for use of cather during the procedure and then he removed a mesh sling the 57278 abdominal approach. However my main concern is getting the claim paid. Can someone explain why they are incidental?
 
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So then the code she used 52000 cause that's not all he did I'll wait til I get to work to read the op report again. But thanks now I know these two codes don't go together at all.
 
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