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Hello -
One of our doctors performed an alveoplasty in an edentulous quadrant in preparation for dentures. Should we bill CPT code 41874 as there are no teeth/extractions involved?
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Hi Guest! 41874 - Alveoloplasty, each quadrant (specify) That sounds appropriate for the situation to me - the code's description asks to specify quadrants, not teeth! Here are the JO qualifiers that you can use to specify the quadrants: 10 : Upper right quadrant 20 : Upper left quadrant 30 : Lower left quadrant 40: Lower right quadrant Examples of how this would look on the medical claim can be found in the NUCC's CMS 1500 claim form manual here, starting on page 46-48: https://www.nucc.org/images/stories/PDF/1500_claim_form_instruction_manual_2023_07-v11.pdfHope this helps!
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