I have a question that I'm hoping I can get some help on.
One of our doc billed out the following for one of our medicare patients
29880/LT-Arthroscopy surgical wtih meniscectomy medial and lateral including any menical shaving. diagnosis code 836.0
G0289-Arthoscopy knee surgical for removal of loose body foreign body debridement /shaving of articular cartilage (chrondroplasty at the time of other surgical knee arthroscopy in a different compartment of the same knee. diagnosis code 715.36.
I know the usual denial that happens is that the G code is included in the other arthroscopy. This one denied as not medically necessary? When i called they pointed me to the LCD and from what i can see we billed everything out correctly. I was wondering if anyone else had come up against this issue before.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks
One of our doc billed out the following for one of our medicare patients
29880/LT-Arthroscopy surgical wtih meniscectomy medial and lateral including any menical shaving. diagnosis code 836.0
G0289-Arthoscopy knee surgical for removal of loose body foreign body debridement /shaving of articular cartilage (chrondroplasty at the time of other surgical knee arthroscopy in a different compartment of the same knee. diagnosis code 715.36.
I know the usual denial that happens is that the G code is included in the other arthroscopy. This one denied as not medically necessary? When i called they pointed me to the LCD and from what i can see we billed everything out correctly. I was wondering if anyone else had come up against this issue before.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks
