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Hello. I have a question and hoping someone can help out, If a Colonoscopy w/ polypectomy in transverse colon was performed using both cold snare and cold biopsy forceps, since the cold biopsy forceps was lastly utilized for completely removing the polyp (and not the cold snare)would this is separately billable with mod 59 (45380-59), a separate polypectomy was also performed in the sigmoid colon using hot snare technique. Two techniques were performed at two different sites for different polyps. Would proper coding be 45385 and 45380-59 in this case, or would you only code this as 45385? I remember reading somewhere that if there is the same technique performed (snare in this case) on a separate lesion that you could bill the biopsy technique (where the lesion was removed using both snare and biopsy). I could not find the article where I read this before, and unfortunately really need to have some help with clarification on this. If anyone has any information regarding this or their thoughts they would like to add I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your help.