AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 2 (February)

Reporting Rigid and Transnasal Esophagoscopy (February 2014)

February 2014 page 9 Reporting Rigid and Transnasal Esophagoscopy Prior to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2014, codes 43200-43232 were reported to describe both transnasal and transoral esophagoscopy. A variety of these modalities have developed into well-recognized individual procedures with varied physician work, resulting in the need to establish new codes to distinguish between rigid transoral and flexible transnasal esophagoscopy. For 2014, two distinct code families were established to describe rigid transoral esophagoscopy procedures (codes 43191-43196) and transnasal esophagoscopy procedures (codes 43197, 43198), and to distinguish these from flexible transoral esophagoscopy (codes 43200-43232). All of these codes are in...

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