HCPCS Coding Clinic (Q1 2025): Zoom in on surgery coding updates

The first quarter 2025 AHA Coding Clinic^® for HCPCS offers guidance on surgery coding updates for the integumentary, musculoskeletal, and hemic and lymphatic systems. It also offers a glimpse at a variety of code changes.

To learn more about the topics in Volume 25, Number 1, subscribers to Codify by AAPC’s HCPCS Coding Clinic search tool can look up these terms or select the year and quarter for the issue:

• New Category III codes, July 2025: 0948T-+0987T
• New, deleted, revised HCPCS Level II codes, January 2025
• New, deleted, revised Proprietary Laboratory Analyses codes, April 2025: 0529U-0551U
• New integumentary, musculoskeletal, and hemic and lymphatic system codes: 15011-15018, 19301, 25447, 25448, 38225-38228, +0945T
• New vaccine code: 90593

The Ask the Editor section of this issue discusses coding for a variety of procedures. Subscribers to our HCPCS Coding Clinic tool can find additional information by searching for these terms:

• Coaptation splint, fracture near hardware: 24500
• Ectropion repair, sub-orbicularis oculi fat lift (SOOF): 14000, 14302, 59, XS
• Infected mesh, laparoscopic removal: 11008
• Liver biopsies, percutaneous: 47000, 59, XS
• Release palatoglossal arch, scar tissue: 42999

Note: Tools and data available may vary based on your Codify by AAPC package.