Thyroid Scan Codes:
Never Assume That 79030 and 79035 Are the Correct Codes
Published on Tue Aug 26, 2003
If you report therapeutic thyroid cancer treatments with codes 79030 and 79035, you should also familiarize yourself with the other codes for radiopharmaceutical therapy, as follows: 79000 - Radiopharmaceutical therapy, hyper-thyroidism; initial, including evaluation of patient.
79001 - ...; subsequent, each therapy
79020 - Radiopharmaceutical therapy, thyroid suppression (euthyroid cardiac disease), including evaluation of patient
79100 - Radiopharmaceutical therapy, polycythemia vera, chronic leukemia, each treatment
79200 - Intracavitary radioactive colloid therapy
79300 - Interstitial radioactive colloid therapy
79400 - Radiopharmaceutical therapy, nonthyroid, nonhematologic
79420 - Intravascular radiopharmaceutical therapy, particulate
79440 - Intra-articular radiopharmaceutical therapy
79999 - Unlisted radiopharmaceutical therapeutic procedure.