AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 3 (March)

Surgery: Digestive System (Q&A) (March 2017)

March 2017 page 10c Surgery: Digestive System Question: What is the appropriate code to report a heterotopic liver allotransplantation (leaving the recipient organ in place while transplanting a donor liver in a different [ectopic] location)? Answer: Code 47399, Unlisted procedure, liver, should be reported for heterotopic liver allotransplantation. In the past, code 47136 was used to report this procedure, but this code was deleted in the CPT 2016 code set due to low utilization. When reporting an unlisted code to describe a procedure or service, it will be necessary to submit supporting documentation (eg, procedure report) along with the...

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