Miagirl78
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can you bill cpt code 15734 with modifier 50 if this was done bilaterally, or should the cpt code be billed out twice?
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Wiki cpt code 15734 with mod 50
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FTessaBartels
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Skin is not lateral
Other than those codes specific to breast surgery, the codes in the integumentary system cannot use the bilateral modifier.
F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC
Other than those codes specific to breast surgery, the codes in the integumentary system cannot use the bilateral modifier.
F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC
Nandhakumar007
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This procedure cannot be billed with 50 modifier
BNyberg
New
CPT 15734-50 okay
According to the American College of Surgeons (see Socioeconomis Tips Volume 94) http://www.facs.org/ahp/pubs/tips/tips1109.pdf, they advise to use 15374-50 if both sides are mobilized.
According to the American College of Surgeons (see Socioeconomis Tips Volume 94) http://www.facs.org/ahp/pubs/tips/tips1109.pdf, they advise to use 15374-50 if both sides are mobilized.
mitchellde
True Blue
I think they have the phrasing incorrect. If the hernia repair were on both sides you would append a 50 to the hernia repair and that is correct, however the flap has no laterality and can only be billed twice if in fact two separate flaps were taken and use the 59 modifier to show separate site.
medicalbiller36
Guest
15734
Your procedure will reject out if you use the 50 modifier as the previous post states. But if you use the 59 modifier it will pay. My general surgeon does myocutaneous muscle flaps alot, and we always use 59 modifier when the documentation specifies the flaps were in two separate areas.
Your procedure will reject out if you use the 50 modifier as the previous post states. But if you use the 59 modifier it will pay. My general surgeon does myocutaneous muscle flaps alot, and we always use 59 modifier when the documentation specifies the flaps were in two separate areas.
Hite
Contributor
15734
How do you bill for a ventral hernia repair when the surgeon has done a left and right rectus release and brought the bectus back to the midline for good coverage. It was decided to use a piece of biologic mesh 25x20 piece of HC Flex mesh was used. Do you bill 15734, 15734/59 49560 and 49568?
How do you bill for a ventral hernia repair when the surgeon has done a left and right rectus release and brought the bectus back to the midline for good coverage. It was decided to use a piece of biologic mesh 25x20 piece of HC Flex mesh was used. Do you bill 15734, 15734/59 49560 and 49568?
EricaR
Networker
We bill 15734 with modifiers RT and LT to Medicare, we bill 15734 and 15734-59 to Secure Horizions, 15734-50 to Amerigroup, while care improvement plus wants both lines of 15734 to have modifier 59. We have called or in some way contacted these companies to get guidance on this, it is really based on the payer here. Hite, I would say yes your coding is correct, if thats how your payer wants it.