• Missing Access To A Course, Blitz or Exam? Have Technical Issues? Open a Help Desk Ticket
    Please Do Not Post in the Community About Access or Technical Issues
    CCO Business Hours for Help Desk and Coaching: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm Eastern

colorectal

  1. L

    Resolved Diverting ileostomy with laparoscopic colostomy

    Hey CCO! We have a patient with colostomy status who underwent a laparoscopic colostomy takedown along with low anterior resection and anastomosis but also a diverting ileostomy was created. I wanted to get some guidance in reporting the correct CPTs 44227, 44187 vs 44208, thank you!
  2. L

    Resolved Anal fistula and I&D of anal abscess

    Hello all, A member of my team has been dinged by our internal auditors for coding 46270 and 46050 on the same claim, stating they are not separately reportable. Here is a description of the surgery: "A hill ferguson retractor was placed to visualize the rectum and anal canal. No internal...
  3. L

    Resolved Is a flex sig billable with destruction of anal lesions to check proximal bleeding?

    Can we report a flex sigmoidoscopy CPT 45330 with CPT 46922 and 46910 if the flex sig was done to check for proximal bleeding? The patient has never had a screening study. I checked the CCI edits for these codes, and nothing jumps out as a bundling error. Our internal auditors are saying this is...
Back
Top