tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2012 Issue 4
Modifier Quiz: Check Your 58/78 Knowledge With These Scenario Answers
Compare your coding from the quiz on page 25 with our experts' solutions.Read on to see how your answers stack up -- and how much money your choices cost (or saved) your surgeon.Solution 1: Partial Mastectomy Following Biopsy Code the breast biopsy as 19101 (Biopsy of breast; open, incisional). The correct diagnosis code for the findings of infiltrating ductal carcinoma is 174.2 (Malignant neoplasm of upper-inner quadrant of female breast).For the return to surgery for a partial mastectomy, you should bill 19301 (Mastectomy, partial (e.g., lumpectomy, tylectomy, quadrantectomy, segmentectomy). The second surgery occurs during...
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