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- Colon Polyps: ICD-10 Coding - AAPC Knowledge Center
The physician finds and snares a tubular adenoma in the cecum Because this is a screening, the primary diagnosis is Z12 11 Encounter for screening for malignant neoplasm of colon Look for “adenoma, tubular” in Volume 2 of the ICD-10 manual, and you are directed to “see also Neoplasm, benign, by site ”
- ICD-10-CM Code for Malignant neoplasm of cecum C18. 0 - AAPC
ICD-10 code C18 0 for Malignant neoplasm of cecum is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Malignant neoplasms × Official Long Descriptor
- Wiki Help code Cecal Wedge please - AAPC
"a small wedge of cecum below base of the appendix was taken with the appendix specimen" Without reading the entire report, by the way that is written, it makes me suspect that the cecal wedge was incidental to the appendectomy because it was the attachment site of the appendix If that is the case, I would only report the appendectomy
- Poor Prep Colon | Medical Billing and Coding Forum - AAPC
CPT assistant Aug 2021 Volume 31 Issue 8 clarifies a colonoscopy reaching the cecum that needs a repeat procedure due to poor prep would not get a 52 or 53 modifier because the complete procedure was performed if it reaches the cecum
- Laparoscopic Cecectomy | Medical Billing and Coding Forum - AAPC
Laparoscopic cecectomy would usually be a 44205, since the cecum connects the colon to the terminal ileum
- Wiki Laparoscopic appendectomy and partial cecectomy - AAPC
I found this on a 2010 post I tried to forward but it wouldn't let me The auther is elenamrobles "I have coded this same scenario using the Lap Appendectomy ie 44970 with 44204 and added the modifier due to code 44970 is a column 2 code for 44204, but a modifier is allowed in order to differentiate between the services provided
- Laparascopic cecectomy | Medical Billing and Coding Forum - AAPC
44970 or 44160-52, 44204-52, or 49329? The surgeon informed me that "44970 - This code is the closest to what I did The appendix was already out There was a possible mucocele at the appendix stump so I laparoscopically took off the base of the cecum to include the appendiceal stump There
- New Billing Guidelines for Incomplete Colonoscopies
“When performing a diagnostic or screening endoscopic procedure on a patient who is scheduled and prepared for a total colonoscopy, if the physician is unable to advance the colonoscope to the cecum or colon-small intestine anastomosis due to unforeseen circumstances, report 45378 (colonoscopy) or 44388 (colonoscopy through stoma) with modifier 53 and provide appropriate documentation ”
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