AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 5 (May)

Surgery: Respiratory System (May 2006)

May 2006 page 17 Respiratory System, 32019, 32020 (Q&A) Question Can you provide the procedural distinctions among codes 32019, Insertion of indwelling tunneled pleural catheter with cuff, and 32020, Tube thoracostomy with or without water seal (eg, for abscess, hemothorax, empyema) (separate procedure)? AMA Comment Procedure code 32019 was added to the CPT code set in 2005 to report insertion of a tunneled catheter into the pleural space for drainage and management of pleural effusions. The technique of insertion and management of this pleural catheter with a cuff requires multiple incisions and subcutaneous tunneling of the indwelling pleural...

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