Please help with thyroid, fine needle aspiration coding.
Gross description: Rec. 2 prepared smear slides and 20 cc of brownish-red bloody fluid in preservcyt container frm which 2 cytospins are prepared and the 4 slides are stained w/papnicolaou and giemsa stains.
Specimen was diluited 6:1 in cytolyt solution.
Pathology procedures: Tissue adequacy, fna process.
Do i code 88172 adequacy and 88173 fna interp?
Gross description: Rec. 2 prepared smear slides and 20 cc of brownish-red bloody fluid in preservcyt container frm which 2 cytospins are prepared and the 4 slides are stained w/papnicolaou and giemsa stains.
Specimen was diluited 6:1 in cytolyt solution.
Pathology procedures: Tissue adequacy, fna process.
Do i code 88172 adequacy and 88173 fna interp?