AMA CPT® Assistant - 1999 Issue 2 (February)

New Code to Report Total Lung Lavage (February 1999)

February 1999 page 9 Coding Communication New Code to Report Total Lung Lavage For CPT 1999, code 32001 was added to describe unilateral total lung lavage. It is important to recognize that code 32001 is a unilateral procedure, because if both lungs were to be lavaged the patient would drown, as the lung is instilled with saline equal to the oxygen consumption of that lung. CPT code 32001 was placed in the incision subcategory within the lungs and pleura section of CPT to avoid the erroneous assumption that code 32001 required the use of a bronchoscope, and to eliminate...

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