AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 3 (March)

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

March 2017 page 10b Surgery: Respiratory System Question: What is the appropriate code to report for shaving/reduction of a patient's thyroid notch or Adam's apple (chondrolaryngoplasty)? Answer: Currently, there is no specific CPT code to report for shaving/reduction/partial removal of a patient's thyroid notch or Adam's apple (chondrolaryngoplasty). Although the procedure is commonly referred to as a "tracheal shave" it is performed on the thyroid cartilage notch, a laryngeal structure. The procedure is not performed on the trachea. The laryngoplasty family of codes (31580-31592, including 31551-31554) was revised in 2017 and none of these describes this service. Code 31599...

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