tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2016 Issue 7

CPT® 2016: 3 Steps Direct Biliary Drainage Catheter Coding

Avoid ‘stent’ terminology for emptying bile duct. With five new codes and a host of new instructions, you need to understand the CPT® 2016 code options for reporting catheter placement, exchange, or removal when your surgeon performs a procedure to manage bile-duct drainage. Follow our three expert tips to make sure you know how to use the new drainage codes, when to rely on some existing E/M codes, and how to keep the drainage codes straight with the host of other new CPT® 2016 biliary procedure codes. Tip 1: Pick One Code for Placement When your surgeon percutaneously...

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