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Archive > January, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 1

Coding & Billing

Give Your Facility the Coding Edge

Cristina Bentin, CCS-P, CPC-H, CMA

Cristina Bentin, CCS-P, CPC-H, CMA Here are simple pearls and pointers for coding some of your more complicated cases.

End the confusion of synovectomy coding
One of the biggest challenges in coding knee arthroscopies is determining whether to select CPT code 29875, arthroscopic synovectomy, limited, or 29876, arthroscopic synovectomy, major, two or more compartments. Here are three points to keep in mind to accurately report an arthroscopy of the knee:

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