Question

Can someone please help me with this?

"Code the following procedure: Left wrist fusion with bone graft harvested from patient’s iliac crest. Also assign a modifier to indicate which wrist was operated on. Modifiers are in Appendix A of the CPT codebook. Remember that modifiers are appended to the code. For example: 27454-50."

and also this.

"The patient undergoes an amputation of the third toe of the left foot at the interphalangeal joint. In addition, the patient also undergoes a diagnostic arthroscopy of the left hip."

and lastly this one.

"The patient fell and twisted her right ankle. She is diagnosed with a medial malleolar fracture. In the operating room, the surgeon makes an incision over the fracture site and first removes a superficial fixation device (a pin) that had been placed in the patient's tibia twenty years ago when she fractured her leg in an old injury. Then the surgeon realigns the fractured medial malleolus and fixes it in place with screws.

Assign the appropriate procedure code(s). Also assign the appropriate modifier(s) to indicate the side of the body the procedure was done on."

Answer 1

Answer:

☆ Left wrist fusion with bone graft harvested from iliac Crest - 25810 - LT

☆ Left third toe amputation at interphangeal joint - 28825 - T2

☆ Left hip arthroscopy ,diagnostic - 29860 - LT

☆ Medial malleolus fixation with screw - 27766