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CPT® 2012:

38230 and 38231 Will Require Knowledge of Bone Marrow Donor

Published on Sun Jan 09, 2011

Change to global days offers new option for E/M reporting.Prepare to track down some donor details before you code bone marrow harvesting. CPT® 2012 wants to know.For 2011 dates of service, if someone had asked, "Does coding for bone marrow harvesting differ based on whether the patient donates the cells or whether another person donates the cells?" the answer would have been, "No."But a code revision and a code addition in CPT® 2012 change that answer to "Yes," effective Jan. 1, 2012.Consider this revision of 38230:2011: 38230, Bone marrow harvesting for transplantation2012: 38230, Bone marrow harvesting for transplantation; allogeneic.Because 38230 is specific to allogeneic harvest in 2012, CPT® also created a code for autologous harvest: 38232, Bone marrow harvesting for transplantation; autologous. Match the Codes to the ProceduresTo apply the codes correctly, remember that "auto" means "self" and "allo" means "other." For bone marrow transplant coding, "autologous" indicates the cells [...]
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