AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 2 (February)

Mastectomy Procedures (February 2007)

February 2007 pages 4-5 Coding Communication:Mastectomy Procedures For 2007, a new subheading in the Breast section of the Integumentary System titled Mastectomy Procedures has been added to segregate the eight mastectomy procedure codes (previously 19140-19240) from other breast excision procedure codes. As a result, codes 19140-19240 and all of the related parenthetical notes have been relocated and renumbered. The code descriptors have not changed. This was necessary to alleviate confusion because there are additional codes following the mastectomy codes in the section (19260-19272) that do not describe mastectomy procedures. Crosswalk to Deleted CPT Codes The table at the bottom...

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