Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' coding and payment rule for arthroscopic subacromial decompression, and also coding initiative for Medicare Part B services and the Medicare Outpatient Code Editor. Topics discussed include coding rules by Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) of American Medical ...
NOTE. CPT procedure legend: Open RCR (23412 or 23410). Subacromial decompression with partial acromioplasty, with or without coracoacromial release (29826). Tenodesis of long tendon of biceps (23430). Acromionectomy (23130). Greater humeral tuberosity fracture treatment (23630). Partial clavicul...
Methods Patients who underwent DCE from 2004 to 2009 were identified by Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes in a national database of orthopaedic insurance records. The year of procedure, age, sex, geographic region, and concomitant rotator cuff repair or subacromial decompression (SAD) were...
Patients undergoing OBT and ABT were matched by propensity scores based on age, body mass index, operative time, proportion of smokers, and proportion of concomitant subacromial decompression, distal clavicle excision, SLAP, and debridement. The incidence of adverse events in the 30-day postoperative...