Hernia Repair
1.Anatomy
2.Medical necessity of Procedure
3.Procedure detail
4.Code selection criteria
5.Important Terminology
1.Anatomy
Hernia is the protrude of the internal part of body through a weakend muscle or tissue wall in the abdomen.
2.Medical necessity of Procedure
Hernia cause pain and also if it get strangulated then abdomen part need to be resected so to avoid this we repair abdominal hernia.
3.Procedure detail
Herniorrhapy or Hernia repair: It is the reducing of the herniated content back to their place, sometime mesh is also applied to prevent from recurrent hernia.
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4.Code selection criteria
Go to Hernia and you will get all code for Hernia repair, So code selection based on
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Approach : Either Open or Laparoscopy
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Type of Hernia such as Umblical, Inguinal, Incisional , Femoral etc.
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Patient age
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Encounter for hernia : Initial or recurrent
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Nature of hernia: Incarcerated , reducible or obstructed.
5.Important Terminology
When you will read the report for Hernia repair , You will get some terminology.
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Strangulated hernia is the interruption of the blood supply to the intestine as a result of an incarcerated hernia, leading to gangrene, or tissue death and subsequent infection.
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If the content of hernia are not able to be reduced, the hernia is considered as incarcerated.
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