tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2006 Issue 5

Perfect Your Bariatric Surgery Coding -- You'll Likely Submit More Frequent Claims

Cholecystectomy and/or appendectomy may count as separate procedures Medicare has recently approved coverage for several types of previously uncovered bariatric surgery -- which means now is also the perfect time to brush up on your coding for these same procedures. Here are the facts you need when reporting Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (43644-43645 and 43846-43847) and biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (43845). Roux-en-Y Won't Involve Gastrectomy You can usually identify a Roux-en-Y procedure by the inclusion of the term -Roux-en-Y- in the operative report. This is the most common type of bariatric procedure surgeons now perform, says Jan Rasmussen, CPC...

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