CPT 2011:
37228-+37235: 4 Steps Garner TP Trunk Services Pay
Published on Mon Apr 18, 2011
Make sure you identify initial and additional vessel procedures. With a new section for endovascular revascularization in CPT 2011, you'll need to make sure your practice is up to date when billing for tibial/peroneal revascularization services. Context: Use this information as a companion to prior articles on the 2011 CPT changes: "37220, 37221 Overhaul Your Iliac Vascular Intervention Choices" in General Surgery Coding Alert Vol. 13, No. A, and "37224-37227: Capture Pay for Femoral/Popliteal Revascularization" in Vol. 13, No. 4. 1. Keep Initial/Additional Designation in Mind CPT 2011 divides the new codes by initial or additional vessel -- each including angioplasty in the same vessel, when the surgeon performs it -- as follows: Initial vessel: The first four codes apply to the initial tibial or peroneal vessel treated in a single leg: Angioplasty: 37228 -- Revascularization, endovascular, open or percutaneous, tibial, peroneal artery, unilateral, initial vessel; with transluminal angioplasty Atherectomy [...]
