tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2001 Issue 9

You Be the Coder: Follow-Up Colonic Polypectomy

Test your coding knowledge.  Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the box below for the answer. Question: The patient undergoes colonoscopy with polypectomy. The polyp is sessile, with dysplasia, and the surgeon is uncertain about the lesion's future biological behavior. A year later, the surgeon wants to recheck the polyp site to make sure the polyp hasn't grown back, but the carrier denies the follow-up colonoscopy because it has a "history of polyps" diagnosis. Should we have used M codes as a diagnosis for the repeat colonoscopy?Arizona Subscriber   Answer: V code V12...

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