tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 1

CPT® 2014: Consider Malignant Tumor Origin for Radical Resection Codes

24 revised codes single out sarcoma. When your surgeon performs a radical resection to remove a malignant muscular/integumentary tumor, you’ll have new direction in CPT® 2014 to help you choose the proper code. Get familiar with a small change in wording for 24 codes, coupled with a number of text notes that will help you zero in the right code every time. Make “Malignant Tumor” More Specific You’ll see an important change to a host of radical resection codes in the CPT® 2014 Musculoskeletal System chapter. The codes change the parenthetic tumor example from “malignant...

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