RE:DS billing code

[Guest guest]

I know this has come up before, but does anyone have the correct billing

code for the DS. If (?) and when (?) I get approved (all appendages

crossed!), I want to make sure it's for the correct pocedure.

Marcia

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[Guest guest]

At 1:51 PM -0400 7/3/01, Marty Kanter wrote:

I know this has come up before, but does

anyone have the correct billing

code for the DS. If (?) and when (?) I get approved (all

appendages

crossed!), I want to make sure it's for the correct

pocedure.

Marcia

Marcia,

Your surgeons decide which codes to bill under--it is out of

your hands. Since there is no specific code for the

DS (YET!), many docs bill under two codes, one for reducing he stomach

and one for the intestinal bypass (the switch).

Some that might be used:

At 5:33 PM +0000 5/18/01, waterlilys@... wrote:

43847 Distal Gastric Bypass is a CPT Code

43638-51 Parietal Gastrectomy

47605-51 Cholecystecomy (Gall Bladder removal)

CPT medical procedure codes, also known as Current Procedure

Terminology; CPT five-digit codes, descriptions, and other data

only

are copyright 2000 American Medical

Association

At 1:28 PM +0000 4/22/01, editorking@... wrote:

Here are the codes that Dr. Hess

billed my insurance for:

43847 Gastric Bypass

43633 Hemigastrectomy

44130 Enteroenterostomy

44950 Appendendectomy

My surgeon (Dr. Eariny) billed under Codes

43843 (Gastric Restriction without bypass) ,

43633 (Gastrectomy)

and, the insurance refuses to process the claim until he submits

the operative report, as they question why two procedures are

needed.

--Steve

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