AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 6 (June)

Soft Tissue Localization (10035, 10036) (June 2016)

June 2016 page 3 Soft Tissue Localization (10035, 10036) Medical advances in the treatment of cancer have increased the importance of marking lesions to identify their locations prior to therapy (eg, neoadjuvant chemotherapy). Frequently, a lesion may no longer be visible or palpable after therapy; therefore, marking a lesion prior to therapy enables the area to be found for subsequent surgical excision. Although Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes exist for reporting of marker placement(s) into various organs (eg, prostate, breast), prior to 2016 there were no specific codes to report marker placement into soft tissue, such as into...

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