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can you bill for a failed vaginal hysterectomy and a total abdominal hysterectomy?
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Wiki Failed Vaginal Hysterectomy
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mitchellde
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can you be more clear in your question? are you wanting to bill for a cancelled procedure or a procedure that was converted.
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physician spent 2 hours trying to remove vaginal approach and then had to go abdominal
mitchellde
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You can bill the abdominal with a 22 modifier and the dx code for convert to open procedure as a secondary dx code.
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thanks!