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Wiki Arthroscopic removal of patella spur

Thread starter Tanya.DeSimone
Start date Mar 30, 2010

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Tanya.DeSimone

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Mar 30, 2010

My ortho performed a knee arthroscopy with a medial plica excision, removal of a medial patella bone spur and chondroplasty of the patella.

I have 29875 and 29877.

Would the excision of the spur be seperately billable or included in the chondroplasty?

Thank you for your help.
-Tanya

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