The patient came with chronic
cholecystitis and the physician did laparoscopic cholecystectomy. What are the
ICD and CPT codes that should be reported ?
PX CODE DESCRIPTION
1 51.23 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
CPT CODE DESCRIPTION
DX CODE DESCRIPTION
1 575.11 Chronic Cholecystitis
1 575.11 Chronic Cholecystitis
PX CODE DESCRIPTION
1 51.23 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
CPT CODE DESCRIPTION
1 47562 Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Note: The
physician may also perform cholangiography and/or exploration of common duct
with laparoscopic cholecystectomy. If either of these services are also
performed along with laparoscopic cholecystectomy than there are combination CPT
codes for laparoscopic cholecystectomy with cholangiography and laparoscopic
cholecystectomy with exploration of common duct as follows:
47563 Laparoscopic cholecystectomy with
cholangiography
47564
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy with exploration of common duct
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