CPT^® 21198, Under Repair, Revision, and/or Reconstruction Procedures on the Head

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 21198 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Repair, Revision, and/or Reconstruction Procedures on the Head.

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A provider performs a mandibular osteotomy, incising the mandible, or lower jaw, and moving portions of the bone to correct facial deformities, congenital or acquired, such as a misaligned jaw.

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Intraoral Styloid Process Excision-Eagle Syndrome

No such luck at this point. Have you tried to do an appeal to Medicare? Did your surgeon do an osteotomy through the mandible? We have thought about trying 21198 Osteotomy, mandible, segmental; to ret... [ Read More ]

Lesion removal from parapharyngeal space via mandibulotomy and neck incision

The doctor removed a lesion from the parapharyngeal space near the base of the skull via neck incision and mandibleostomy, the coder coded 42890 for partial pharyngectomy and 21198 for osteotomy of ma... [ Read More ]

Oropharynx carcinoma resection

Please see procedure list below (I'm hoping this will be enough - the op report is PDF format only) 1. Tracheostomy 2. Right radical neck dissection 3. Right composite resection of oropharynx includi... [ Read More ]

Reconstruction of Mandibular defect

I'm new to this specialty. Can anyone help with coding this procedure? There were actually two physicians involved with this. This what they would like billed [U]each[/U]: 20969 - 62, free osteocuta... [ Read More ]

New to coding, please help!

I would speak with the doctor, have him look at codes 21193 and 21198, the note does not say anything about internal fixation, the arch bars are considered external and so are the wire loops. There t... [ Read More ]

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