AMA CPT® Assistant - 2019 Issue 9 (September)

Reporting Nasal Bone Vs Septal Fracture Treatment (September 2019)

September 2019 pages 3-4 Reporting Nasal Bone Vs Septal Fracture Treatment Recently, there have been questions regarding appropriate reporting of closed treatment of nasal bone and septal fractures. Appropriate use of four Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes (21310, 21315, 21320, 21337) is being debated among coders and health care professionals. These codes were developed pre-1990 and their descriptors were revised in 1993 as part of a major revision to all fracture-treatment codes in the Musculoskeletal System section. Confusion often occurs due to a failure of fully reviewing the entire code and the subtleties of managing nasal bone and...

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