CPT Knowledgebase - Jul 27, 2006

If a patient with proliferative diabetic retinopathy undergoes treatment involving a pars plana vitrectomy as well as cryopexy destruction to treat the diabetic retinopathy, should code 67227 be reported or should two codes be assigned to describe the vitrectomy and cryopexy procedures?

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