Van Ness Rotation prosthesis

Van Ness Rotation prosthesis

Jim DeWees

6/18/2015

Hello again,

I am full of questions today...I am dealing with a few new situations and
need some advice.


I have a patient who has the Van Ness Rotation, and I have questions about
the L-codes to properly bill for this device.

I have made a few of these in the past, a couple at the Shriner's hospital
several years ago, and also 2 of these when I was in southern CA.

I was not involved with any of the billing or the coding when I was working
at these other facilities at the time.

If anyone can help and offer some advice for the coding for this type of
prosthetic leg? It is a young boy (age 6) and I plan to use an energy
storing foot, it also requires the external knee joints, thigh lacer etc,
which I plan to laminate and make it out of carbon.

Any help on the coding and billing aspects of this type of prosthetic leg
would be very helpful.

Please respond by email if you can help me with the coding for this.
Thanks.

Also, along this same topic of the Van Ness rotation, I have a friend on
Facebook who is a prosthetist in Korea. He sent me some really interesting
photos of a prosthetic leg for a patient in Korea. They made him a custom
silicone booty that fits over this foot, which has a pin locking umbrella
in the heel of this silicone booty. This clicks into a locking mechanism on
the below knee (actually his foot) socket. He has a very high thigh
lacer, laminated thigh section actually, which appears to be ischial weight
bearing. The video of him walking is amazing, he walks very well with this.



Thanks again,

Jim DeWees, CP