Urology Coding Alert
Strengthen Your Fascia Harvest Claims
Question: Virginia Subscriber Answer: When your urologist performs a laparoscopic sling procedure, you should report 51992 (Laparoscopy, surgical; sling operation for stress incontinence [e.g., fascia or synthetic]). You can also bill the harvest code, 20926 (Tissue grafts, other [e.g., paratenon, fat, dermis]). Reasoning: When the urologist performs an open sling procedure, 57288 (Sling operation for stress incontinence [e.g., fascia or synthetic]), this code does not include the fascial harvest (20926). Therefore, consider the same to be true when your urologist uses harvested fascia during a laparoscopic sling procedure.
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