CPT 2010:
Get Your Lap Coding up to Speed With This New Code Rundown
Published on Sun Oct 25, 2009
Make sure you're ready for abdominal repair and hemorrhoidectomy changes, too. Reporting your general surgeon's service with an unlisted code means more documentation work and a payment guessing game -- that's why you'll welcome CPT 2010's more specific codes. Let our experts introduce you to a pair of specific lap codes and host of new tumor incision codes that you'll need to know starting Jan. 1. Capture Large Abdominal Repairs With New Code When your general surgeon repairs a large abdominal wall defect, you didn't have a way to report the work -- until now. CPT 2010 adds 14301 (Adjacent tissue transfer or rearrangement, any area; defect 30.1 sq cm to 60.0 sq cm) and +14302 (... each additional 30.0 sq cm, or part thereof [List separately in addition to code for primary procedure]) for these services. "We often see really massive abdominal wall repairs ��" much more than a typical ventral [...]
