Inguinal Hernia Repair Mesh Placement

In fact despite recent negative press regarding use of abdominal mesh use of mesh in an inguinal hernia repair remains the standard of care.

Inguinal hernia repair mesh placement. Inguinal hernia surgery is an operation to repair a weakness in the abdominal wall that abnormally allows abdominal contents to slip into a narrow tube called the inguinal canal in the groin region. To get more closely fitting to inguinal surgical surface of laparoscopic hernia repair we used elasticated flat mesh ultrapro. The mesh used in hernia surgeries often causes irritation and inflammation that leads to pain. I think you have two choices that i can see here you can code this for the excision of the cord lipoma with cpt 55520 and consider the mesh inclusive to the procedure as it would be for an open inguinal hernia repair or code it with an unlisted code 49999 and request that the payer make payment comparable either to 49520 due to the documentation of a prior hernia at this site or to.

Hernia repairs are common more than one million hernia repairs are performed each year in the u s. A narrated inguinal groin hernia repair surgery with placement of mesh performed by darrin hansen md. Understanding inguinal hernia repair side effects. Approximately 800 000 are to repair inguinal hernias and the rest are for other types of hernias.

Occasionally during a recurrent hernia repair surgeons must remove implanted mesh from a previous repair. In both the open and laparoscopic repair procedures the aim is to cover the whole inguinofemoral area by a preperitoneal prosthetic mesh and recurrences should not occur. In that case you could report s2077 for laparoscopic mesh placement with incisional ventral hernia repair in addition to s2057 as discussed above for the laparoscopic repair. Elective surgery is offered to most patients.

Surgery remains the ultimate treatment for all types of hernias as they will not get better on their own however not all require immediate repair. Your body views the mesh as a foreign invader and must launch an attack to. The onflex mesh is indicated for use in the reinforcement of soft tissue where weakness exists such as in the repair of inguinal hernias. Inguinal hernia repair in recurrence generally the short term recurrence rate of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair is reported to be less than 5 percent.

Laparoscopy this method leaves smaller scars than. However depending on an individual difference the existing mesh might not be the best fitting to surgical surface. Contraindications use of this device is contraindicated for infants children or pregnant women whereby future growth will be compromised by use of such mesh material. Reaction or rejection of the mesh.