AMA CPT® Assistant - 2021 Issue 6 (June)

Erratum: Chrondroplasty (29877) (June 2021)

June 2021 page 12 Erratum: Chrondroplasty (29877) In a question under the heading, “Surgery: Musculoskeletal System,” in the Frequently Asked Questions section on page 13 of the May 2020 issue of CPT®Assistant, the answer incorrectly stated that chondroplasty is not reported separately because it is included when the procedure represented by code 29881 is performed during the same surgical session on the same knee. Instead, code 29877, Arthroscopy, knee, surgical; debridement/shaving of articular cartilage (chondroplasty), would be the appropriate code to report. In addition to correcting the answer, the question has been refined in this Erratum, which...

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