Radiology Coding Alert

Thyroid Scan Codes:

Never Assume That 79030 and 79035 Are the Correct Codes

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.

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