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Beware Adhesiolysis Bundles

Published on Thu Oct 15, 2020

Question: During a splenectomy procedure, the surgeon documents encountering dense adhesions involving the bowel and omentum, which require two hours of adhesiolysis by sharp dissection to adequately expose the spleen. Can we separately code the lysis of adhesions as 44005? Ohio Subscriber Answer: No, you should not report 44005 (Enterolysis (freeing of intestinal adhesion) (separate procedure)) in addition to the [...]
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