Wiki Coding for surgery

[MAIRA PATTERSON]

General surgery: What modifiers i can use? Same patient
1st: Sx 9/21/09
49565 hernia rep 49568 w/ mesh
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2nd: Sx 11/03/09
44140 colectomy w/ anas 43633 gastrectomy w/ roe y recons 44005 loa
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3rd: Sx 11/11/09 44140 43622
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4th: Sx 11/17/09 43840 gastrorrhaphy 97605 w/vac
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5th: Sx 11/19/09 44140 rt hemicolectomy 43840 97605
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6th: Sx 11/23/09 44125 14000 49568 97605
let me know. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee thanks maira

 

[mjewett]

It depends on if the surgeries were, related to the first surgery(78), unrelated (79), or planned in advance (58).