20705

CPT^® 20705, Under General Introduction or Removal Procedures on the Musculoskeletal System

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 20705 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 removes an intra–articular drug delivery device from a joint as part of a separately reported primary procedure. Report this code in addition to the code for the primary procedure.

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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 ]

ORTHO EXPERTS PLEASE HELP

I am having a problem with correct coding of a biodegradable type knee spacer removal and then reinserting a new spacer. The CPT codes are add on codes for both the removal and the insert so we can't ... [ Read More ]

ORTHOPEDIC HELP

CPT 20705 with 27447

Code 20705 has a list of "Code First" CPT codes. And code 27447 is not on that list.... [ Read More ]

CPT 20705 with 27447

Is it appropriate/expected to utilize 20705 with 27447 (TKA) because that’s where we are concerned if we need to use it when we remove a manually manipulated antibiotic spacer prior to putting in th... [ Read More ]

11983 vs 20704, 20705

Patient has problems with infection in his knee - provider did an arthrotomy and put in a static antibiotic spacer. Now he is taking the spacer out and putting a new one in and doing a temporary knee... [ Read More ]

Help please what term to look for when coding injection/medications

So you weren't terribly far off, I just wanted to see how you were doing. In the index in the back, for any body part that has a joint, go to INJECTION, then JOINT. If you go to KNEE, you're not goi... [ 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

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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