Gastroenterology Coding Alert

Question: Our physicians are using a Third Eye retroscope. I am trying to find a CPT code for this procedure.

Nebraska Subscriber

Answer: Third Eye Retroscope is a brand name for an add-on to a standard colonoscope. Use the same colonoscopy procedure codes as you normally would.

-- Clinical and coding expertise for this issue provided by Michael Weinstein, MD, a gastroenterologist in Washington, D.C., and former member of the AMA's CPT Advisory Panel; and Linda Parks, MA, CPC, CMC, CMSCS, an independent coding consultant in Atlanta.