My provider performed a partial medial meniscectomy and a partial lateral meniscectomy in the same surgery. Coding Knees irritates me, because when doing a mensicectomy along with several other procedures, you can only code for the meniscectomy.
My question is – When coding for a partial medial meniscectomy and a partial lateral meniscectomy of the same knee – am I able to append a 22 modifier to 29881? OR do I code 29880 vs 29881? My thought is to use 29881 since it is a partial, but 29881 is for Medial OR Lateral – and 29880 if for BOTH Medial and Lateral – but with a partial for both – how would I code this? Would it possibly be 29880-52? Since it was partial for both medial and lateral?
I am still fairly new with my CPC and have been pondering this with the last few surgeries I have coded and want to be sure I am coding this correctly.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you