A patient undergoes surgery in the right eye to remove excess tissue between cornea and the sciera. Three days later she is hit left eye with a tree limb, causing a vitreous hemorrhage. Immediate surgery is needed are these separately reportable
This in the context of medical codes and whether or not they should be bundles. The first surgical procedure is most probably a pterygium excision with autograft and its CPT code is 65426. The second procedure will require a pars plana vitrectomy with a CPT code of 67036. These codes for the two procedures are separately reportable.
