AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2025 Issue 2; In This Issue

Surgery Section CPT Code Update 2025: Category III codes

The First Quarter 2025 issue of Coding Clinic for HCPCS highlighted new, revised, and deleted CPT codes effective January 1, 2025, related to the integumentary system, the musculoskeletal system, and the hemic and lymphatic systems. This short article focuses on new Category III codes 0884T, 0885T and 0886T for endoscopic dilation using a drug-coated balloon catheter, which corresponds to specific Category I codes in the digestive system, as well as code 0888T for histotripsy, for tissue ablation. See the table(s) below for the new codes:2025 Category III Code Code Descriptor 0884T [new] Esophagoscopy, flexible, transoral, with initial transendoscopic mechanical...

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