AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 1 (January)

THEN and NOW: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography - Codes 43268 and 43269 (January 2012)

January 2012 pages 11-12 THEN and NOW: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography - Codes 43268 and 43269 The Spring 1994, September 2004, and October 2004 editions of CPT Assistant discussed the reporting of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) codes 43268 and 43269. The following "then and now" updates reporting instructions when more than one stent is removed from a duct and only one is replaced, as well as when multiple stents are placed in the same duct. THEN CPT Assistant Spring 1994 - Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Codes 43268Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP); with endoscopic retrograde insertion of tube or stent into bile or pancreatic...

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