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True Blue
Unlike diagnostic thoracoscopies, multiple surgical thoracoscopies are not bundled with each other. If two separate techniques are performed at different sites, both may be billed together with modifier -59
So if my physician performs a thoracoscopy with excision-plication of bullae (32655) and pleurodesis (32650) both of the left lung can I not bill both with a -59?
Does the "If two separate techniques are performed at different sites," mean it has to be right lung/left lung or am I covered since he had to treat the pleura and lung?
Please help!
Thanks so much
So if my physician performs a thoracoscopy with excision-plication of bullae (32655) and pleurodesis (32650) both of the left lung can I not bill both with a -59?
Does the "If two separate techniques are performed at different sites," mean it has to be right lung/left lung or am I covered since he had to treat the pleura and lung?
Please help!
Thanks so much