AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 3 (March)
Coding Incompetent-Veins Treatment (March 2018)
March 2018 pages 3-4 Coding Incompetent-Veins Treatment Increased attention to the diagnosis and management of venous pathology and advances in technology has resulted in new treatment options for venous incompetence. This article provides an overview of the recent changes to the sclerotherapy and endovenous ablation therapy codes in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set. Historically, the least invasive treatment has been direct puncture sclerotherapy, which involves injection of a sclerosant or a chemical into a target vein that irritates the lining of the blood vessel and causes the vessel to collapse. CPT code selection for reporting sclerotherapy...
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