AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 4 (April)

In Vitro Fertilization (April 2004)

April 2004 pages 1-5 In Vitro Fertilization In vitro fertilization (IVF) involves a multitude of complex laboratory procedures performed over an interval of 1 to 7 days. These procedures involve both the male and female gametes as well as the subsequent embryos that develop. The CPT code set initially had only one code to describe the laboratory procedures that took place from the time the oocyte was aspirated from the ovary until the embryo was transferred to the uterus or was cryopreserved. A single code quickly became inadequate to describe the many different components of work involved as the...

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