CPT^® 15771, Under Other Flaps and Grafts Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 15771 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Other Flaps and Grafts Procedures.

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The provider harvests fat by liposuction technique from one location and injects it in another location on the trunk, breasts, scalp, arms, or legs, or a more than one of those areas, to fill in defects or reshape contours. This code represents 50 cc or less of autologous fat used for injection.

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Breast Reconstruction

Would you add CPT code 19380 to codes 15771 & 15772 for patients left breast? 1. Encounter for breast reconstruction following mastectomy Z42.1 2. Acquired partial absence of left breast Z90.12 3. P... [ Read More ]

Breast injection with fat from abdomen

Has anyone come across this scenario: doing a revision of a reconstructed breast, fat injection into breast and revision of abdominal scars from donor site. The abdominal scar sites were corrected b... [ Read More ]

Breast Recon

Please help!! I don't why I get so confused w/ plastics & breast px's. I feel the more I look into it the more confused I get. Should I use 19380 for right breast or 11970? This is what I have now... [ Read More ]

15771 and 15772 to breasts and how to bill

[QUOTE="haraml7, post: 493996, member: 251159"] HI, 15771 does have guidelines showing "15771 should be billed once per session", BUT when looking at this code there is a "0" payment indicator per the... [ Read More ]

15771 and 15772 to breasts and how to bill

HI, 15771 does have guidelines showing "15771 should be billed once per session", BUT when looking at this code there is a "0" payment indicator per the fee schedule which states that bilateral (50 m... [ Read More ]

15771 and 15772 to breasts and how to bill

I'm confused about how to bill these two codes when it's a bilateral procedure. CPT Coding Essentials for Plastics and Derm states that 15771 is for 50cc or less and can only be reported once per sess... [ Read More ]

19380 or 15771

CPT Asst April 2020: 15771 (and 15772 if appropriate, depending on how many cc's were injected) "No additional breast reconstruction code should be reported if only fat-graft harvesting and injection... [ Read More ]

19380 or 15771

What is everyone using for bilateral revision of reconstructed breast by means of lipo/fat grafting [U]only[/U]? 19380 or 15771?? TIA... [ Read More ]

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