I am a billing and coding student about to take my CPC test and today on a test I had a question that I answered, and got wrong, even though I feel I am right, can someone experienced please help me understand why I am wrong or if I am?
The question was....Pt diagnosed with a blighted ovum and physician performs a suction D&C. I didn't know what a blighted ovum was so I looked it up and read that the egg attaches to the uterus but a gestational sac is not formed and it results in a miscarriage.... My instructor says my procedure code should of been 59840 ( but the definition I have for a induced abortion, is an abortion that brings death to the fetus) In this case there was no evidence of a fetus... so I went with 59812 which is treatment of incomplete abortion, any trimester, completed surgically. The instructor says my code doesn't work because it does not state suction D&C, it says surgically performed...well I thought a D&C was a outpatient surgery? If you can help me understand, I would appreciate it!!
The question was....Pt diagnosed with a blighted ovum and physician performs a suction D&C. I didn't know what a blighted ovum was so I looked it up and read that the egg attaches to the uterus but a gestational sac is not formed and it results in a miscarriage.... My instructor says my procedure code should of been 59840 ( but the definition I have for a induced abortion, is an abortion that brings death to the fetus) In this case there was no evidence of a fetus... so I went with 59812 which is treatment of incomplete abortion, any trimester, completed surgically. The instructor says my code doesn't work because it does not state suction D&C, it says surgically performed...well I thought a D&C was a outpatient surgery? If you can help me understand, I would appreciate it!!
