CPT^® 61750, Under Stereotaxis Procedures on the Skull, Meninges, and Brain

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 61750 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Stereotaxis Procedures on the Skull, Meninges, and Brain.

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Summary

In this procedure, the provider removes a portion of skull bone and biopsies, aspirates, and or excises an intracranial lesion using mapped coordinates the provider obtains from computed tomography, or CT, and or magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scans to identify the lesion.

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Help please ? What CPT is appropriate?

Surgeon and I do not agree on which CPT code is appropriate........ Patient was then co-registered w/his preoperative MRI using the brain lab image guidance system as we would use this to plan the ap... [ Read More ]

61750

Is anesthesia including in billing stereotactic biopsy procedure 61750? Or do I bill that separate?... [ Read More ]

61750 and 61751 Stereotactic Biopsy

Hi, I was wondering if the anesthesia delivered during the 61750/61751 procedures is to be billed separately? Or, does the 61750 and 61751 procedures include anesthesia?... [ Read More ]

Burr hole skull biopsy

If he used Stealth, I would probably look at the stereotactic codes, 61750 and 61751.... [ Read More ]

Billing burr hole

Take a look at 61750 stereotactic biopsy aspriation or excision, including burr holes for intracranial lesion... [ Read More ]

Craniectomy

Physician performed a craniectomy to remove a frontal subdural hematoma and also removed bone fragments in the left frontal & temporal area would I be correct in coding 61312 & 61750. Thank You... [ Read More ]

Coding help pls

61750 includes the burr hole, I would use 61750 only, if he used a ct or mri for guidance, it would be 61751.... [ Read More ]

Coding help pls

My Neurosurgeon has performed a R frontal burr hole and stereotactic aspiration of brain abscess. Would you code this out using 61750 and 61151 or just the 61750? When I put the codes into the code ... [ Read More ]

Sterotactic biopsy code 61750

Although CCI edits and the manual I referred to indicate that these two services aren't bundled...I am having 2nd thoughts. 61750=A special ring is attached to the skull before the procedure, keeping... [ Read More ]

Sterotactic biopsy code 61750

Thanks Rebecca, I have been billing this for one of my physician and have been recieving payment. However, I have two other physicians that was questioning the 61750 as they were considering this as ... [ Read More ]

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