13. Your patient wants an abdominoplasty. Her general surgeon calls you and says, by the way, she has a small umbilical hernia, can you fix that while you are there? On physical exam, you do indeed feel an umbilical hernia. How do you bill the insurance company?
Answer:
Umbilical hernia code 49585: repair umbilical hernia
Abdominoplasty code 15831 (not to the insurance company, however)
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