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Jun 29th, 2012 - swalker216

removal of foreign material

How would I code this?

pt had a lumpectomy a couple of weeks ago. There seems to have been
gauze left in the axilla area by the surgeon.

We removed the foreign material . The OP note says subq tissue was dissected bluntly. gauze was identified and removed. The cavity was inspected for hemostasis and irrigated? Would I be looking at 10120 and 10121 or is there a code specific to material being left in from surgery

Thanks

Jun 29th, 2012 - nmaguire   2,606 

re: removal of foreign material

Were you the surgeon who performed lumpectomy and left gauze?

Jun 29th, 2012 -

re: removal of foreign material

one of our surgeons did the first surg and left the gauze. a different surgeon in our group did the removal

Jun 29th, 2012 - nmaguire   2,606 

re: removal of foreign material

If same group, same specialty, I would caution about even billing--the diagnosis is a misadventure.



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