20700

CPT^® 20700, Under General Introduction or Removal Procedures on the Musculoskeletal System

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 20700 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - General Introduction or Removal Procedures on the Musculoskeletal System.

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The provider manually prepares a drug delivery device for deep insertion into the subfascial tissues and creates the necessary incisions and pocket for insertion of the device as part of a separate primary procedure. Report this code in addition to the code for the primary procedure.

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1 stage exchange - Total Hip Revision, complicated

[QUOTE="amyjph, post: 514887, member: 172045"] A 22 is what you would need provided it is explained and justfied in the operative report. You would have to track the claim after to follow the reimburs... [ Read More ]

1 stage exchange - Total Hip Revision, complicated

A 22 is what you would need provided it is explained and justfied in the operative report. You would have to track the claim after to follow the reimbursement. There's nothing else to call it except 2... [ Read More ]

Place antiobiotic spacer hand

I have a note that 11981 is if above fascia Consider looking into 20700-20705 note: these are add on codes Thinking if intra-articular would be 20700 (deep eg. subfasia) and removal would be 20701 Th... [ Read More ]

Articulating antibiotic spacer

[QUOTE="Paula19, post: 506275, member: 10576"] Thank you but this is not for a revision of an infected total. The patient did not have a total hip. This is his original hip. Any suggestions?? Thank... [ Read More ]

New 20700 series

If my primary codes doesn't fit into any of the ones listed with these add-on codes, then do I go back to the 11981 or 11982? I have a case where the antiobiotics beads are being removed and then 2744... [ Read More ]

New Drug-delivery codes for 2020 20700 - 20705

Good Morning, I'm an orthopedic coder and for years we were using the 11981 - 11983 codes whenever a antibiotic rod, knee/hip spacer, or beads were used/removed. Now that they've created [B]these ne... [ Read More ]

Drug delivery devices

No, it's still a good code. Per AAPC coder, 11981 is for subcutaneous implants. CPT directs to 20700-20704 for deep implants (subfascial, intramedullary, or intra-articular)... [ Read More ]

Drug delivery devices

Hello,, With the introduction of new CPT codes for the insertion and removal of drug delivery devices (20700-20705), has CPT code 11981 (insertion of non-biodegradable drug delivery implant) been de... [ Read More ]

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