Reader Question:
Follow Payer Policy on How Often to Report 52648
Published on Thu Mar 12, 2020
Question: A patient had two Greenlight vaporizations of the prostate (52648) about 15 months apart. The urologist’s dictation does not indicate it was a staged procedure. I cannot find any documentation that clearly indicates that 52648 is a once-in-a-lifetime procedure, although I’ve seen some insurer policies making it once-in-a-lifetime. Is 52649 a subsequent Greenlight in the same way the 52630 [...]