A patient is suffering from shoulder impingement and rotator cuff tear degenerative. The physician performs subacromial decompression with acromioplasty for shoulder impingement and arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. What are the appropriate ICD and CPT codes?
PX CODE DESCRIPTION
1 83.63 Rotator Cuff Repair
DX CODE DESCRIPTION
1 726.10 Rotator cuff tear degenerative
1 726.10 Rotator cuff tear degenerative
2 726.2 Shoulder impingment syndrome
PX CODE DESCRIPTION
1 83.63 Rotator Cuff Repair
2 81.83 Shoulder Decompression with Acromioplasty
CPT CODE DESCRIPTION
CPT CODE DESCRIPTION
1 29827 Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair
2 29826 Arthroscopic Shoulder Decompression with Acromioplasty
When there is shoulder impingement and rotator cuff tear, the physician may also perform extensive debridement of the shoulder, which should be reported with additional codes as shown below. If you are coding for physician then 51 modifier should be appended to CPT 29826 and any additional CPT codes.
PX CODE DESCRIPTION
3 80.81 Repair of Shoulder NEC (Arthroscopic shoulder debridement)
PX CODE DESCRIPTION
3 29823 Arthroscopic Shoulder Debridement extensive
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