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    Wiki 29848 Carpal Tunnel In office

    Some of our payors are denying a 29848 to be done in office stating that the CMS guidelines will not pay for them done in office, however we cannot locate that information and we have had multiple medicare patients have this procedure done in office and they were covered. Anyone have any ideas...
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    Wiki CARPAL TUNNEL IN OFFICE- CPT 29848

    Some of our payors are denying a 29848 to be done in office stating that the CMS guidelines will not pay for them done in office, however we cannot locate that information and we have had multiple medicare patients have this procedure done in office and they were covered. Anyone have any ideas...
    • ashlundgreen
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    • 29848 carpal tunnel carpal tunnel release in-office endoscopic carpal tunnel release
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    • Forum: Orthopaedics
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    Wiki Hand-and-Wrist Procedures performed in an Office-Based Surgical Suite (OBSS)

    Hand-and-wrist procedures lend themselves to WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia with No Tourniquet) where the surgeon can communicate with an awake patient and ask them to move their fingers during the operation to obtain immediate feedback. Even though there are dozens of peer-reviewed...
    • ritecode
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    • ectr fac pe rvus in-office endoscopic carpal tunnel release ioectr non fac pe rvus obs obss (office-based surgical suite) office-based-surgery reimbursement orthopedics site-of-service differential (sosd)
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    • Forum: Orthopaedics
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    Wiki WALANT: (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia with No Tourniquet)

    Is anyone working with surgeons using WALANT? Note that this is not a specific CPT code but how you perform a host of procedures. The most common are hand and wrist procedures such as: carpal tunnel release, tendon repair and removal of masses. The issue is not the CPT code but where the surgery...
    • ritecode
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    • fac pe rvus in-office endoscopic carpal tunnel release ioectr non-fac pe rvus: practice expense rvus obs office-based-surgery reimbursement site-of-service differential (sosd) walant
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Billing/Reimbursement
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