AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 1 (January)

Genitourinary Ureteral Procedures (January 2016)

January 2016 pages 3-6 Genitourinary Ureteral Procedures The October 2015 issue of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Assistant newsletter discussed several changes made to the genitourinary catheter procedure codes in the CPT 2016 code set. This article concludes that discussion and highlights the changes made to the Surgery/Urinary System/Ureter subsection of the CPT codebook. Headings, guidelines, and parenthetical notes were created and revised to identify the appropriate reporting of procedures that involve nonendoscopic endoluminal biopsy of the ureter and/or renal pelvis, percutaneous placement of ureteral stent, ureteral embolization or occlusion, and balloon dilation of ureteral stricture. Ureter/Incision/Biopsy The...

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