CPT® 2013:
Clear Up Pedicle Flap Confusion with 15740 Changes
Published on Mon Jan 14, 2013
Named vessel is key. Changes to CPT® 2013 "other flaps and grafts" instructions -- along with the code revision -- might simplify your coding for 15740 (Flap; island pedicle requiring identification and dissection of anatomically named axial vessel). But let our experts take the changes a step further to remind general surgery coders just how much there is to know about coding [...]