tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 39

GENERAL SURGERY CODING: You Can Stop Using An Unlisted Code For Gastric Electro Stimulation

But rectal mucosectomy may have become harder to bill.It looks as though surgeons can't bill for a colectomy with renal mucosectomy, unless they also performed a protectomy at the same time. CPT 2007 deletes two codes (44152-44153) for a colectomy without protectomy but with a renal mucosectomy, with or without a loop ileostomy. It replaces those two codes with two new codes, for a colectomy with protectomy, including both loop ileostomy and rectal mucosectomy, when the doctor performs one. Also, CPT 2007 changes the descriptor for colectomy with protectomy code 44211 to clarify that it includes a rectal...

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