Procedure Focus:
'Test Yourself' Answers to Nephrectomy Scenarios
Published on Wed Mar 15, 2017
Now that you’ve studied the situations on page ___, here’s how you should report each one. Scenario 1 answer: Bill only for the laparoscopic radical nephrectomy. Submit the following single CPT® code: 50545 (Laparoscopy, surgical; radical nephrectomy [includes removal of Gerota’s fascia and surrounding fatty tissue, removal of regional lymph nodes, and adrenalectomy]). Although the initial procedure was planned to [...]