Question

Repair of right eye retinal detachment with a giant tear is performed for an accidental injury sustained from a baseball to the eye at fastball practice. vitrectomy, drainage of subretinal fluid, silicone oil tamponade, and endolaser photocoagulation are performed to correct the tear. what are the procedure and diagnosis codes for this service?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Current procedural terminology(CPT) are medical codes used for medical procedures, billing and payment. The code is formulated by America doctors and its serves as guide for treatment.

Diagnosis code for treatment of Retina is 67113, H33.031, W21.03XA

Procedures

The first is to check of CPT codes for repair of eye with Repair/ Retina/ Detachment using Vitrectomy and the code 67113 for rectina repair will be referred to.

Code 67113 is used for repair of damage to retina.

Another index is checks called the ICD-10-CM using Detachment/retina/with retinal/break/giant and code H33.031 will be referred to where 1 indicate right eye as place of injury.

The last code is ICD-10-CM and it is used to locate external Causes of Injuries using Struck (accidentally) by/ball (hit) (thrown)/baseball. Code W21.03 will be referred to as the guide for procedures.