AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 10 (October)

Surgery: Digestive System (Q&A) (October 2016)

October 2016 page 11a Surgery: Digestive System Question: After performing a segmentectomy in segment VII of the liver, the surgeon also performed a wedge resection of the gallbladder fossa. What is the appropriate code to report the wedge resection? Answer: Code 47120, Hepatectomy, resection of liver; partial lobectomy, is the appropriate code to report the wedge resection. Two, three or more non-anatomic wedge resections of liver lesions, may be performed in the same procedure. Therefore, it would be appropriate to report code 47120 for the first resection and any additional resections would be reported with code 47120 with a...

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