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Archive > December, 2009 Vol. X, No. 12

Coding & Billing

Compartmentalizing Knee Arthroscopy Cases

Deborah Laubach, MBA, CPC, CPC-H

It's all about compartments when it comes to coding arthroscopic knee procedures. You must bundle procedures performed in the same compartment — meaning that you may report only the single highest-level procedure — but you can report multiple CPT codes when your surgeons do work in separate compartments. Making this distinction is the key to picking up all of the codes possible when coding knee procedures (see "5 Knee Arthroscopy Coding & Billing Tips" on page 21). Your surgeons can greatly assist you in maximizing reimbursement by dictating with compartments in mind. For example, your surgeons can dictate a separate paragraph for each compartment, stating what they saw and what they did in the medial compartment, the lateral compartment and so on.

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