Wiki Assistance Is Needed....PLEASE!!!

[sherrodm02@gmail.com]

With all of the updated edits for 2012; I'm getting jumbled on how to code these efficiently. Can you please also advise me on a technique that would be usefule moving forward.

PROCEDURES PERFORMED:
Left knee arthroscopy, partial medial meniscectomy, and chondroplasty of the trochlear groove, and major synovectomy

I decided on using:
29876-LT
29881-LT

 

[nyyankees]

With all of the updated edits for 2012; I'm getting jumbled on how to code these efficiently. Can you please also advise me on a technique that would be usefule moving forward.

PROCEDURES PERFORMED:
Left knee arthroscopy, partial medial meniscectomy, and chondroplasty of the trochlear groove, and major synovectomy

I decided on using:
29876-LT
29881-LT

was a synovectomy performed in lateral and patellafemoral compartments? If so you can report 29876 with 29881.