Wiki The surgeon performs TURBT no tumor size

[mary dwyer-rasmussen]

The surgeon performs TURBT removes a tumor and sends it to pathology. The tumor size is not in the OP report. Can I code the size from the Pathology report? Another example is for Two tumors that were resected and put in one cassette to the Pathologist. How can I code the tumor size from that pathology report for my CPT procedure which goes by tumor size minor, small, medium codes?? Thank you

 

[tori.a]

Hi! I've always been told it is not correct to code from the path report. If you can query the physician, I would try that first. Otherwise, we are to use the code for the smallest size tumor.

 

[liqgold2@aol.com]

I agree