You Be the Coder:
Distinguish LEEP Procedures
Published on Wed Apr 15, 2020
Question: Our surgeon performed a colposcopy and used a loop electrocautery excision of cervical tissue. How should I code this? New Mexico Subscriber Answer: You don’t provide quite enough information to narrow down the code selection. You’re describing a loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), but what you’ve stated would lead to one of the following codes: 57460 (Colposcopy of the [...]