Wiki Status Post & Aspiration

[LLRodgers]

Hello,

I have patient that had an arthroscopy on the right knee on 9/3/14. He is in for a follow up for the surgery however, he has a baker's cyst on that knee and the doctor aspirated it. Not sure how to code this?

Do I code the Baker's Cyst with the Aspiration and a modifier 79 and then code the Status post with a 99024?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,
Linda

 

[ehanna]

If the bakers cyst is a new problem then an office level can be charged, appending a -24 modifier indicating new problem in global period. Your aspiration will have the baker cyst diagnosis attached and you would still bill the post op code.

I am interested to see how others answer this question as I work for a large company and usually only see the front end of things. Good luck!

 

[abrodskycpc]

Since it is the same knee, you would code the 99024 (status post) and then the 20610 would need a 58 (because it is the same knee) and the side modifier.