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Anesthesia Coding:

Look to 00790 for This Umbilical Hernia Surgery

Published on Fri Nov 22, 2024

Question: Can you give me some assistance with the following procedure? The patient had an umbilical hernia, no other description. I got the operative report to determine whether it was an upper or lower abdomen procedure. It was upper, and in the report it states it was incarcerated. For anesthesia, do I report 00752 or 00790? The surgery time was over [...]
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