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What's Best to Bill for Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty

Published on Thu Sep 13, 2018

Question: One of my doctors performed a robot assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty and removed several stones that were in the renal pelvis at the same time. He gave me the code 50065 which to my understanding is done open and not laparoscopic. There isn’t a CPT® code for laparoscopic removal of renal pelvic stones, so how should I report this procedure? [...]
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