AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 11 (November)

Medicine (November 2004)

November 2004 page 10b Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Medicine, 92612, 92700 (Q&A) Question Our physician performed a FEES procedure by cine recording in order to assess pharyngeal swallowing function. What is the appropriate code to report for this procedure? AMA Comment From a CPT coding perspective, it would be appropriate to report code 92612, Flexible fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing by cine or video recording, for the flexible fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) procedure performed by cine recording. If flexible fiberoptic or endoscopic evaluation of swallowing is performed without cine or video recording, then code 92700, Unlisted...

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