Subject: Re: stupid insurance companies

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In a message dated 12/1/01 6:57:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,

duodenalswitch writes:

<< I have understood from previous posts that sometimes RNY is used to refer

to

the bypass part of the surgery and not the " stomach " part. >>

As long as they approved CPT code 43847 as the primary procedure

>(sometimes 43633 secondarily), I don't think that you need to go any

>further with this.

Dr. Hess uses both of the above, I got the 43847 approved, which is gastric

bypass. Dr. Hess calls it " long limb reu en y, because when they were

showing me a drawing of the procedure it is like a Y (one side enzymes, the

other side food without enzymes) and the bottom of the Y is the common

channel.

so if you got the 43847 approved, I agree with , you don't need to go

any further with this. Anyway, this is a gastric bypass, as doesn't gastric

mean (food) and it is being bypassed, right?

I actually think we are lucky there is no specific code for DS, because if

there were......

Carole