Wiki splenectomy open/lap

[koatsj]

How would you bill a hand-assisted lap splenectomy....38100 or 38120?

 

[syllingk]

with just that info I would say 38120

 

[koatsj]

That is what I thought initially, but the hospital billed it as an open procedure and used V64.41 as one of the diagnoses so I doubted myself. Thanks for the info