AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 12 (December)

Percutaneous Biliary Procedures (December 2015)

December 2015 pages 3-9 Percutaneous Biliary Procedures The Relativity Assessment Workgroup (RAW) of the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale (RVS) Update Committee (RUC) identified percutaneous biliary procedure codes, 47500, 47505, 47510, 47511, 47525, 47530, and radiological supervision and management codes, 74305, 74320, 74327, 75980, and 75982, as being reported together greater than 75% of the time. Therefore, in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2016 code set, these codes have been deleted, and 14 new codes, including three add-on codes, have been established to describe bundled image-guided percutaneous biliary procedures. Image-guided percutaneous biliary procedures (eg, transhepatic, transcholecystic)...

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