schuchmanb
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Good morning,
I am getting a lot of charges for patients with pain following total joint replacements (usually hip) where the docs are doing an aspiration under fluoro to check for infection, then injecting dye & performing various numbers of views to check for prosthesis loosening. Should these be coded as 20610/77002-26 or would the arthrogram codes 27093/73525-26 be more appropriate? Seems to me that this is not a true arthrogram, but it is more than a typical aspiration/injection for arthritis pain.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I am getting a lot of charges for patients with pain following total joint replacements (usually hip) where the docs are doing an aspiration under fluoro to check for infection, then injecting dye & performing various numbers of views to check for prosthesis loosening. Should these be coded as 20610/77002-26 or would the arthrogram codes 27093/73525-26 be more appropriate? Seems to me that this is not a true arthrogram, but it is more than a typical aspiration/injection for arthritis pain.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.