AMA CPT® Assistant - 2019 Issue 3 (March)

Surgery: Endocrine System (Q&A) (March 2019)

March 2019 page 11a Surgery: Endocrine System Question: Is it appropriate to report a transcervical thymectomy procedure separately from a bilateral modified radical neck dissection? Answer: Yes, code 60520, Thymectomy, partial or total; transcervical approach (separate procedure), is reported for the thymectomy; while code 38724, Cervical lymphadenectomy (modified radical neck dissection), is reported separately for a cervical lymphadenectomy that is neither radical nor suprahyoid. Modifier 50, Bilateral procedure, is appended to code 38724 to indicate a bilateral procedure. The thymectomy is a separate procedure and not a component of or integral to neck dissection or lymphadenectomy. Surgery: Endocrine System...

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