What is the CPT code for extensor tendon repair?

The extensor tendon repair code is 25270—Repair, tendon or muscle, extensor, forearm and/or wrist; primary, single, each tendon or muscle.

What is CPT 25270?

CPT® 25270, Under Repair, Revision, and/or Reconstruction Procedures on the Forearm and Wrist. The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 25270 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range – Repair, Revision, and/or Reconstruction Procedures on the Forearm and Wrist.

What is extensor tendon repair?

They allow individuals to straighten their fingers and thumbs. Extensor tendon repair surgery repairs torn or damaged extensor tendons on the back of the fingers. These tendons are attached to the muscles in the forearm. As these tendons continue over the fingers (digits), they become flat and thin.

What is extensor tendon?

Extensor tendons run just underneath the skin along the back of the hands and wrists. They control the hand’s ability to straighten the fingers and wrists. A mallet finger injury happens when a finger is jammed, causing an extensor tendon to rupture at the base of the finger joint.

How do you bill for surgery?

If you provide the typical postoperative care instead of the surgeon, you should bill your services by appending modifier -55, “Postoperative management only,” to the code for the surgical procedure. Using the hip replacement example above, you would bill your postoperative services using 27130-55.

What is tendon repair surgery called?

Because they are slightly weaker than the tendons on the inside of the ankle, they are prone to injury when a sprained ankle occurs. When these tendons are injured, you may need tendon repair and reconstruction surgery, also known as peroneal tendon surgery.

What is the CPT code for flexor tenotomy?

If the physician performs a flexor tenotomy as a means to correct a “contracture” condition of the toe, you’d report CPT code 28232, since it is specific for a tenotomy of the flexor tendon of the toe.

What is the surgery for the extensor indicis proprius injury?

The surgery is “tendon transfer of extensor indicis proprius index finger to thumb extensor pollicis longus. An incision was made on the ulnar aspect of the index metacarpophalangeal joint. The extensor indicis proprius was isolated & transected distally.

Repair – Hand Extensor CPT Codes. Extensor tendon repair, dorsum of finger, single, primary or secondary, with free graft, (includes obtaining graft) each tendon (26420) Extensor tendon repair, central slip repair, secondary (boutonniere deformity); using local tissues (26426)

Is the extensor indicis proprius transected distally?

The extensor indicis proprius was isolated & transected distally. With a clamp for placing a hemostat from the proximal wrist wound underneath the extensor tendons up to the metacarpophalangeal joint of the index finger, the extensor indicis proprius tendon was place in the clamp and then drawn proximally.

What is the CPT code for extensor pollicis longus tear repair?

Unfortunately you have wandered way off course with some of your proposed &/or considered codes. The code 26418 is correct for repair of the extensor pollicis longus tendon laceration of the thumb.