AMA CPT® Assistant - 2023 Issue 9 (September)

Important Revisions for Reporting Nephrolithotomy and Pyelolithotomy (50080, 50081) (September 2023)

September 2023 pages 30-37 Important Revisions for Reporting Nephrolithotomy and Pyelolithotomy (50080, 50081) Important changes were made to two existing urinary system procedural codes (50080, 50081) for the CPT 2023 code set. The changes involved updating many terms commonly used in the past for urinary procedures that no longer reflect current clinical practice and resulted in new introductory guidelines, code descriptor revisions, and new parenthetical notes for codes 50080 and 50081 in the Urinary System subsection of the Surgery section. This article provides an overview of these changes and describes appropriate usage of the revised codes. Urinary System Incision...

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