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Apr 9th, 2013 - happy 12 

Laparoscopy

The patient had an acute abdomen and was taken to surgery for diagnostic laparoscopy. Our surgeon performed appendecomy, partial omentectomy and peritoneal biopsies, and evacuation of ascites. I know I would bill 44970 for the laparoscopic appendectomy, but are there any other codes I can bill with this? Code 49321 (laparoscopy surgical with bx) comes up as bundled, but states you can add a modifier to 44970. Is the partial omentectomy part of the procedure? Thanks for any help you can give me on this.



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