AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2008 Issue 3

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We are a cyberknife center and need clarification regarding how to correctly assign CPT code 77300. We have been informed by our physicist that each stereotactic beam differs from the next beam with regards to the depth and dose delivered by each beam. We also were informed that the beams are reviewed, verified and approved from the computer generated treatment plan. Based on the following example, how many times should code 77300 be assigned? Is the code assignment based on paths or beams? If code 77300 is incorrect, what is the correct code for the example? Example for a cyberknife treatment of one brain tumor1Path total MU: 2371.302Total beams: 124Total non-zero beams: 115Total imaging beams: 91Total zero dose beams: 9 ...

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