Wiki bone length studies w/knee-hip xrays

[cpccpma]

Hello-I'm hoping someone can give me some good info on these codes. My ortho docs are wanting to bill cpt code 77073 with either knee or hip xrays-per NCCI the code bundle and I don't see a way around billing them together. Is there any hard evidence that says you can't bill these codes together? Thanks in advance!

Michelle

 

[Rajinder_Dhammi]

append modifier 59

Hi,

You must append modifier 59 to the x-ray code.

For eg: If the physician does Bone Lenght Studies (77073) along with radiologic examination of the the right hip 4 views (73503). You should code it like this:

77073
73503-59, RT

I hope it helps.

Thank you,
Rajinder Singh Dhammi, CPC