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CPT® 2017:

Overhaul Laryngoplasty and Flexible Laryngoscopy Coding

Published on Mon Oct 17, 2016

Add lesion ablation and other specific procedure choices. When your surgeon performs a flexible laryngoscopy with therapeutic injection next year, you’ll finally have a specific code to report the service (31573). The new code is part of an update of the flexible laryngoscopy family that revises the four existing codes and adds three new ones. That’s not all: CPT® 2017 [...]
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