AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 4 (April)

CPT Assistant> THEN and NOW: Reporting Photodynamic Therapy (April 2013)

April 2013 pages 8-9 CPT Assistant THEN and NOW: Reporting Photodynamic Therapy THEN The article, Coding Communications: Coding Photodynamic Therapy in the September 2000 (p 5) issue of the CPT Assistant referenced the code descriptors created that year and provided reporting instructions regarding add-on codes 96570 and 96571 for photodynamic therapy (PDT). Following is an excerpt of those instructions. +96570Photodynamic therapy by endoscopic application of light to ablate abnormal tissue via activation of photosensitive drug(s); first 30 minutes (List separately in addition to code for endoscopy or bronchoscopy procedures of lung and esophagus) +96571Photodynamic therapy by endoscopic application of...

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