Seize Tissue Transfer Opportunities -- and Shun Pitfalls
Published on Fri Jan 01, 2010
Learn CCI 16.0 limits for 14301-14302. Get ready to dust off the adjacent tissue-transfer coding rules for two new CPT 2010codes -- and Medicare's latest Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) will make sure you do just that. No sooner did 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]) come on the scene than CCI 16.0 bundled them with a host of other codes. Let our experts help you wade through the edits so you'll know when you can (and can't) bill these codes with other procedures. Tissue Transfer Includes Excision/Repair Surgeons use adjacent tissue transfer codes (14000-14302) when they perform a complicated closure such as Z-plasty or W-plasty for an excision (such as lesion) or repair (such as laceration). "Note that the adjacent tissue [...]