AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 5 (May)

Surgery: Female Genital (Q&A) (May 2012)

May 2012 page 14a Surgery: Female Genital Question: Is it appropriate to append modifier 52 to code 58210, Radical abdominal hysterectomy, with bilateral total pelvic lymphadenectomy and para-aortic lymph node sampling (biopsy), with or without removal of tube(s), with or without removal of ovary(s), when vacuum assist closure (VAC) is performed instead of the suture closure? Answer: It would not be necessary to append modifier 52, Reduced services, to code 58210, when the procedure is performed using VAC-assisted closure. Modifier 52 would be appended to code 58210, if a more significant part of a radical hysterectomy surgery was not...

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