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Ortho coding question
If a physician does an ORIF (plates and screws) to get a fracture in place
for Nailing, (then removes the plates and screws on the Nail (s) is in proper position)
can he bill for both procedures?
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What does the CCI edits show on bundling for these 2 codes?
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They are not bundled
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What are the two CPT® codes that you are wanting to report together. This seems inclusive to me, regardless of whether there is a CCI bundling edit or not.
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I thought so too, you are doing one so you can do the other, it seems an itegral part of the second procedure. But when they weren't bundled, it made me second guess myself.