Desperate Denise
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Hey Guys - it is the little shoulder coding chicken!!
The payer is Blue Shieild -
Physician performs arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, excision of distal clavicle including greater than 10 mm, subacromial decompression and debridement of Type 1 superior labral anterior and posterior tear through both the anterior and posterior portals.
The diagnoses includ rotator cuff tear, acromioclavicular joint arthropathy, subacromial impingement and Type I SLAP tear.
I would code 29827, 29826-51, 29824-59 and 29823-59
Can you guys help me - I am not sure if the 29824 is billable but he did bone work greater than 10mm. The second questions is do I use 29823 or 29822 with modifier 59. Because it was both anterior and posterior portals I would conclude that is back and front and use 29823.
What do you think?
Thanks so much!!
Chicken Little aka Desperate D
The payer is Blue Shieild -
Physician performs arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, excision of distal clavicle including greater than 10 mm, subacromial decompression and debridement of Type 1 superior labral anterior and posterior tear through both the anterior and posterior portals.
The diagnoses includ rotator cuff tear, acromioclavicular joint arthropathy, subacromial impingement and Type I SLAP tear.
I would code 29827, 29826-51, 29824-59 and 29823-59
Can you guys help me - I am not sure if the 29824 is billable but he did bone work greater than 10mm. The second questions is do I use 29823 or 29822 with modifier 59. Because it was both anterior and posterior portals I would conclude that is back and front and use 29823.
What do you think?
Thanks so much!!
Chicken Little aka Desperate D