What is the CPT code 44204?
What is the CPT code 44204?
44204 – CPT® Code in category: Laparoscopy, surgical.
What is the CPT code for open sigmoid colon resection?
The correct code will be 44204.
What is the CPT code for small bowel resection?
44120-52, Enterectomy, resection of small intestine; single resection and anastomosis.
What is CPT code for laparoscopic sigmoid colectomy with colostomy?
44208
If this same procedure was performed laparoscopically, the correct code to report would be 44208, Laparoscopy, surgical; colectomy, partial, with anastomosis, with coloproctostomy (low pelvic anastomosis) with colostomy.
What is a diverting ileostomy?
Ileostomy diverts the ileum to a stoma. Semisolid waste flows out of the stoma and collects in an ostomy pouch, which must be emptied several times a day. An ileostomy bypasses the colon, rectum, and anus and has the fewest complications.
What is a sigmoid colectomy?
A sigmoid colectomy, or sigmoidectomy, removes the last section of your colon, known as the sigmoid colon. This is the part that connects to your rectum.
What is a small bowel Enterotomy?
Definition: an incision into the lumen of a segment of small intestine. Indications: foreign body removal, full thickness intestinal biopsy, linear foreign body removal.
Is the small intestine part of the bowel?
It makes up part of the long pathway that food takes through your body, called the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. When food leaves your stomach, it enters the small intestine, also called the small bowel. The small bowel connects to the large bowel, also called the large intestine or colon.
What is a lap sigmoid colectomy?
A sigmoid colectomy, or sigmoidectomy, removes the last section of your colon, known as the sigmoid colon. This is the part that connects to your rectum. Hemicolectomy. A hemicolectomy removes one side of your colon. A left-side hemicolectomy removes your descending colon, the section that travels downward on the left.
What is robotic sigmoid colectomy?
A robotic colectomy is performed with several small incisions instead of one long incision down the center of the abdomen which is done in an open colectomy. Other advantages of a robotic colectomy include a shorter hospital stay, reduced postoperative pain and faster recovery period.