AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 12 (December)

Surgery: Digestive (December 2005)

December 2005 page 11-end Surgery: Digestive CPT Changes 2006, An Insider's View, Clinical Example Clarification With respect to the Clinical Example provided for procedure code 44202, Laparoscopy, surgical; enterectomy, resection of small intestine, single resection and anastomosis, on page 124 of CPT Changes 2006, An Insider's View, it should be noted that the sentence that states, "The sigmoid colon is mobilized through four laparoscopic ports," should instead read, "The small bowel segment is mobilized through four laparoscopic ports." The correct Clinical Example is as follows: A 23-year-old female with Crohn's disease has two areas of ileal disease...

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