Physician did an incision and drainage of superficial temporal space and then removed temporal mandibular joint prosthesis via preauricular and retromandbilar approach? Just looking for the best cpt code(s) to cover a procedure like this, I’m a newbie to all this???
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Temporal Artery Mass ICD – 10
I can’t find the dx code for temporal artery mass. There is nothing noted on the billing sheets that mass was due to an aneurysm or pseudoaneurysm. So I don’t think these codes would be appropriate. The surgeon office used H53.8 – Other visual disturbances but that doesn’t seem right either. The mass is the case of the visual disturbance. The procedure code is 37609 – Ligation or biopsy, temporal artery.
I was thinking perhaps R22.0 Localized swelling, mass and lump, head but that doesn’t seem right since this is vascular.