CPT^® 77401, Under Radiation Treatment Delivery

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 77401 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Radiation Treatment Delivery.

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This code represents the technical component of a procedure in which the provider delivers radiation treatment using superficial and or ortho voltage, a low energy level radiation that does not penetrate very deeply into the body. Use this code for each day of treatment.

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Superficial Radiation Therapy in a Providers office and incident to billing

I have never done incident to billing and I know the basic rules when it involves a midlevel provider carrying out a plan of care on a patient. However, we recently brought in IG-SRT to our office. T... [ Read More ]

Medicare Billing Guidelines for IMRT for Providers in Freestanding Clinics

Are there any guidelines for billing 77401 with 77226 or 77334?... [ Read More ]

Radiation Therapy issue

We do radiation therapy for non-melanoma skin cancer- we were previously billing 77401 however it has since been mentioned that G6003 should be utilized. Being that this is "SRT" we had been using 774... [ Read More ]

Superficial Radiation Therapy SRT coding

You can't code 77280 or 77401 in multiple units. One treatment per day even if multiple sites are treated. If BID use modifier -76 for PM treatment. 77280 only when simulation is performed.... [ Read More ]

Superficial Radiation Therapy SRT coding

[b]Srt treatment two sites same day[/b] What if the patient has two sites done at the same time, how would this be coded? 77401? Then when they come on their 5th visit how would it get coded 77280 an... [ Read More ]

Radiation Oncology

Does any one know if clinical treatment planning 77261/77280 a paid service with radiation treatment delivery 77401? Or is it bundled. Cannot find any information on the medicare website. Thank you ... [ Read More ]

SRT for Skin Cancer

Good morning. We are clear on the appropriate CPT code to report SRT treatment delivery, which is 77401. I am less sure about codes for treatment planning, simulation. Are these services appropriat... [ Read More ]

Superficial Radiation Therapy SRT coding

[b]Technical component[/b] We own the equipment and employ the radiation therapist. Would additional codes be billable other than 77401 x 1 for SRT? Thank you.... [ Read More ]

Superficial Radiation Therapy SRT coding

Yes 77401 x 1 for SRT (Superficial Radiation Treatment) no matter how many areas are being treated... as this code has a maximum allowable unit to be billed as 1. If the patient has two treatments (B... [ Read More ]

Radiation Codes

I see in the NCCI edits that 77307 can't be billed with 77401 on the same date of service but nothing about 77014.... [ Read More ]

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