AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 10 (October)

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

October 2016 page 11 Surgery: Musculoskeletal System Question: A physician harvests autologous fat tissue from the hip, and the fat is injected into the defected area(s). What is the appropriate Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code to report the fat grafting that was performed? Answer: Fat grafting is reported with code 20926, Tissue grafts, other (eg, paratenon, fat, dermis). This code includes the work of harvesting the fat graft material by any method (eg, syringe, suction-assisted lipectomy, incision); closing the donor site, if indicated, and applying the appropriate dressing; processing the fat graft material; injecting the fat graft into...

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