Wiki Small bowel resection

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I have a patient that had a lap band erode through the small bowel. At surgery they removed the band, of course, and also did a small bowel resection. Can I bill for both procedures since the band caused the bowel perforation?
 
Yes you can. There are no CCI edits for those two codes together assuming you are billing 43774 and 44120.
 
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