AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2025 Issue 3; Ask the Editor

Shoulder Arthroscopy With Bioinductive Implant

A patient with a longstanding history of left shoulder pain and functional limitations presented for surgical intervention. A left shoulder arthroscopy and rotator cuff repair with bioinductive implant was performed with extensive debridement, and biceps tenodesis, for confirmed full-thickness tears of the supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis tendons and biceps tenosynovitis.Once the rotator cuff repair and other procedures were completed, a bioinductive implant was placed. The implant was deployed via the lateral portal and fixed in place with polydioxanone (PDS) and polyetheretherketone (PEEK) anchors with good overlay of the rotator cuff. The humerus was mobilized, and the implant was noted to move its function unit with the rotator cuff.Would placement of the bioinductive implant for rotator cuff reinforcement be reported separately from the rotator cuff repair? ...

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