Psych Testing for Bariatric Surgery

I need to bill insurance for psychological testing prior to bariatric surgery and I was wondering if using ICD10 code Z04.6 would be appropriate for this or are there other codes that would be better to use?

Thank you
Kyoko

re: Psych Testing for Bariatric Surgery

I wouldn't use Z04.6 because it states it's an evaluation requested by authority. I would use Z01.818 "Encounter for other preprocedural examination" and according to the chapter guidelines, it says to also assign a code for the condition to describe the reason for surgery. Code also any findings related to the pre-op evaluation.

Hope this helps.

re: Psych Testing for Bariatric Surgery

Thank you so much!!