AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 11 (November)

Destruction of Prostate Tissue by Water Vapor Thermotherapy (November 2018)

November 2018 page 10 Destruction of Prostate Tissue by Water Vapor Thermotherapy For 2019, a new code to report transurethral destruction of prostate tissue by radiofrequency-generated water vapor thermotherapy has been added to the Surgery/Urinary System subsection of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set. For reporting purposes, a distinction has been made between the direct application of radiofrequency (RF) energy to prostate tissue to cause tissue destruction (53852) and the indirect application of RF energy in the form of water vapor thermotherapy to ablate prostate tissue (53854). Urethra Other Procedures 53850Transurethral destruction of prostate tissue; by microwave...

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