You can’t override any of these new digestive-system edits by attaching a modifier to your claims.The exact Column 1 codes differ slightly for each of these codes. But the comprehensive codes generally include all of the codes in the endoscopy section of digestive surgery (45300-45392).
Component codes include laparoscopic fundoplasty code 43280; bariatric surgery codes 43644-43653, 43770-43774 and 43886-43888; digestive laparoscopy codes 44186-44188, 44204-44212 and 44227; laparoscopic protectomy and proctopexy codes 45395-45402; cholangiography/cholecystectomy codes 47560-47570; abdominal laparoscopy codes 49320-49325; renal laparoscopy codes 50541-50548; and hysteroscopy codes 58541-58554
Because of separate procedure defination in 45300, you use Modifier 59 when billed with colectomy procedures.