AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 12 (December)

Surgery: Digestive System (December 2007)

December 2007 page 12 Bonus Feature:Surgery: Digestive System Question: What is the correct code to report a laparoscopic wedge liver biopsy with a laparoscopic cholecystectomy? Answer: The laparoscopic cholecystectomy is reported using an appropriate code from the 47562-47564 series. There is no specific CPT code to describe laparoscopic wedge liver biopsy. Code 47379, Unlisted laparoscopic procedure, liver, should be reported without any CPT modifier. Because unlisted codes do not include descriptor language that specifies the components of a particular service, these codes are reported without modifiers. Surgery: Digestive System (December 2007). CPT® Assistant. 2007; December 2007 page 12 ...

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