Can anyone shed some light on this procedure? I have even googled it and I need to know how to code this procedure. Our local trauma surgeon is billing for this procedure along with a bowel resection/appendectomy. Please put your thinking caps on and help me out.
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Wiki Cecopexy/typhlopexy
- Thread starter nswope
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Grintwig
Expert
I saw 49900 which doesn't seem exactly right to me because of the reasoning given in the code...unless you consider the need to anchor the cecum as a sort of dehiscence. MAybe the experts will have more of an opinion on the viability of that code choice.
Without an expert's opinion I gues I would have to go with 49999.
Without an expert's opinion I gues I would have to go with 49999.