AMA CPT® Assistant - 2021 Issue 12 (December)

Harvest of Upper Extremity Artery for Coronary Artery Bypass (December 2021)

December 2021 pages 17-18 Harvest of Upper Extremity Artery for Coronary Artery Bypass For the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2022 code set, new code 33509 has been established in the Cardiovascular System subsection of the Surgery section to report endoscopic harvesting of an upper extremity (UE) artery for a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure. In addition, code 35600, which is reported for the harvest of an UE artery via an open approach, has been revised with the removal of the add-on code symbol and its prior designation as an add-on procedure. Introductory guidelines and instructional parenthetical notes...

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