AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2025 Issue 3; In This Issue

CPT Surgery Section update 2025: Digestive and urinary systems

The Second Quarter 2025 issue of Coding Clinic for HCPCS highlighted new Category III codes 0884T, 0885T and 0886T for endoscopic dilation using a drug-coated balloon catheter. This brief article reviews new, revised, and deleted codes in the digestive and urinary systems.Digestive system: Abdomen, peritoneum, and omentumIn the Digestive System codes, 49203, 49204, and 49205 have been deleted. These codes were reported based on the single largest tumor excised or destroyed. Five new codes 49186, 49187, 49188, 49189, and 49190 have been established to capture the open surgical excision or destruction of intra-abdominal primary or secondary tumor(s) or...

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