---
title: The patient, a five-month old child, was rushed to the hospital for emergency repair of a strangulated, recurrent ventral hernia. Code the hernia and the anesthesia for repair.
description: Please answer this question using the comments feature below
---

![New claimcare logo banner](https://www.claimcare.net/hs-fs/hubfs/New%20claimcare%20logo%20banner.jpg?width=977&name=New%20claimcare%20logo%20banner.jpg)

Search

How to Use the Medical Billing Question & Answer Forum

### We have updated our Medical Billing Question and Answer Section to be more user friendly and interactive. Please follow this link to our new and improved [Medical Billing Questions & Answers Forum](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-questions-forum/). We are temporarily leaving the page below active so that answers already provided can be searched. We are, however, no longer posting new questions on this page. Please use the improved [Medical Billing Questions & Answers Forum](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-questions-forum/) for new questions.

# Medical Billing Question & Answer Forum - RETIRED

## [The patient, a five-month old child, was rushed to the hospital for emergency repair of a strangulated, recurrent ventral hernia. Code the hernia and the anesthesia for repair.](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/bid/10009/The-patient-a-five-month-old-child-was-rushed-to-the-hospital-for-emergency-repair-of-a-strangulated-recurrent-ven)

Posted by ClaimCare Resources on Wed, Aug 26, 2009 @ 12:41 AM

- [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)

Please answer this question using the comments feature below

 Tags: [coding questions](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/coding-questions)

### Most Popular Questions

### Most Recent Questions

### Questions by Topic

- [general medical billing questions (24)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/general-medical-billing-questions)
- [coding questions (6)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/coding-questions)
- [DME billing questions (1)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/dme-billing-questions)
- [Starting a Medical Billing Company (1)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/starting-a-medical-billing-company)
- [improving medical billing (1)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/improving-medical-billing)
- [medical billing (1)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/medical-billing)
- [medical billing companies (1)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/medical-billing-companies)
- [medical billing education (1)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/medical-billing-education)
- [medical billing operations (1)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/medical-billing-operations)
- [medical billing questions from patients (1)](https://www.claimcare.net/medical-billing-resources/medical-billing-training/topic/medical-billing-questions-from-patients)

### Subscribe by Email

© 2003 - 2019 ClaimCare Medical Billing Services

![](https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/viewthroughconversion/844937408/?guid=ON&script=0) 

![](https://dc.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=349186&fmt=gif)