I was given a case where the pathologist received 4 lymph node specimens. He states for Specimen A that "fresh and unfixed specimen procured and submitted in its entirety for flow cytometry analysis". Same statement for Specimen D except instead of the entire specimen, a portion was done. He billed these as intraoperative consults -88329. I don't think this would fall under that cpt code. What do others think? Specimen B & C were processed as 88305. Any one have any ideas?
The report reads as such: Frozen Section Diagnosis:
IOC-A L4 Lymph node : tissue procured for flow cytometric studies.
IOC-D L4 Lymph node : tissue procured for flow cytometric studies.
The report reads as such: Frozen Section Diagnosis:
IOC-A L4 Lymph node : tissue procured for flow cytometric studies.
IOC-D L4 Lymph node : tissue procured for flow cytometric studies.