11960

CPT^® 11960, Under Introduction or Removal Procedures on the Integumentary System

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 11960 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Introduction or Removal Procedures on the Integumentary System.

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Summary

The provider inserts one or more implants under the patient’s skin that helps to expand the tissues. This code represents placement of expanders anywhere in the patient’s body, except the breast, for reconstruction of tissue defects.

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Multiple tissue expanders

Clarification please. The description of CPT 11960 is "insertion of tissue expander(s)". The (s) usually means single or multiple expanders would still only bill the code once. However, the MUEs fo... [ Read More ]

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I have never done plastic surgery coding, but what about the 11950-11954 codes? That is for injecting materials (like Botox?) or if you are augmenting by a tissue expander you could use 11960.:o... [ Read More ]

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Hello Karen, I saw your response to this previous post so I wanted to get your feedback...but here is the situation...it's a little different. The patient had previously undergone bilateral mastecto... [ Read More ]

Tissue expander filling different physician during global

[b]11960-55[/b] FIRST - I am assuming your physician and the original surgeon are of TWO different practices (or TWO different specialties within the same practice) ... The surgeon who inserted the ... [ Read More ]

Tissue expander filling different physician during global

We have a pt who had insertion of tissue expander 11960 (in head) by another physician, but we are filling the expander (which is bundled into the code). We will be performing cranial reconstruction l... [ Read More ]

Placement of tissue expander during redo thoracotomy

I would reccomend you look at 32120 and 11960 - this is not my field of speciality so please double check. hope this helps... [ Read More ]

Removal and reinsertion of tissue expander

From what I can tell it might be a 11971-LT, 11971-RT, 19357-RT (since you are reinserting the tissue expander). I could not find any other codes and unfortunately you can't use 11960. You cannot use ... [ Read More ]

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