AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 6 (June)

Surgery: Female Genital System (June 2006)

June 2006 page 16d Female Genital System, 57421 (Q&A) Question When reporting code 57421, Colposcopy of the entire vagina, with cervix, if present; with biopsy(s) of vagina/cervix, is it appropriate to presume that endometrial biopsies are also included in this code? AMA Comment No. In fact, for CPT 2006, code 57421 has been editorially revised to clarify that endometrial biopsies are not included in this code. Furthermore, code 58110, Endometrial sampling (biopsy) performed in conjunction with colposcopy (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure), has been established to report endometrial sampling performed in conjunction with a...

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