AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 12 (December)

Island Pedicle Flaps (December 2012)

December 2012 pages 6-8 Island Pedicle Flaps Confusion in determining when to code an island pedicle flap has led to the inappropriate reporting of code 15740 for flaps other than island pedicle flaps. To correct this ambiguity, code 15740 and the guidelines for its use have been revised for 2013. This article provides clarification on the appropriate reporting of an island pedicle flap. Because an island pedicle flap requires a vascular connection, the code descriptor for 15740 now states "requiring identification and dissection of an anatomically named axial vessel," in order to describe a graft requiring a vessel...

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