CPT 2012:
62310, 62318 Revisions Help Clarify Your Single Shot vs. Indwelling Catheter Coding
Published on Mon Nov 07, 2011
Plus: Prepare for changes to 77003, too. Although you won't report new or revised CPT codes until January 2012, prepare yourself -- and your anesthesia providers -- now for revisions that can affect your everyday coding, such as the rewording of two popular epidural codes. Examine the Descriptor Differences The primary changes apply to epidural codes CPT 62310 and 62318. The current and upcoming descriptors are as follows: The new descriptors incorporate several changes: 62310 clarifies that it can be used for more than one single injection. 62310 no longer mentions the possible use for epidurography. "Epidurography is a separate procedure that doesn't need to be related to this code," explains coding consultant Samantha Fowler, CPC, CPC-I, MCS-P, ACS-AN. The current version of 62310 doesn't include catheter administration, but the revised descriptor does. "Physicians were placing catheters for single shots and trying to bill 62310 or 62311," Fowler explains. "The difference is [...]