tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2018 Issue 6

Coding Quiz: Dissect This Crohn's Case for Multiple Procedures

Understand modifier 51 use. You have your answers for coding the Crohn's surgical case described in first article, now see how they stack up to our experts' coding: Procedure: 44204 (Laparoscopy, surgical; colectomy, partial, with anastomosis) 44202 (Laparoscopy, surgical; enterectomy, resection of small intestine, single resection and anastomosis) Diagnosis: K50.812 (Crohn's disease of both small and large intestine with intestinal obstruction) K50.818 (... with other complication) Code Multiple Scopes If you decided to report just one procedure code for this case, such as 44204, you'd stand to lose a lot of pay. In many circumstances, you can...

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