tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2017 Issue 10

Tissue Flaps: 3 Tips Promise Accurate Tissue Transfer Coding

When surgeons create tissue flaps to repair defects created by excision or other injury, coding the scenarios can get messy. Read on to learn three steps to focus your choices and make sure you pick the right code every time. Tip 1: Know What's Included Sometimes your surgeon needs to move beyond simple, intermediate or complex repair to close a defect. That's when you might see documentation for various advancement flaps such as those described by codes 14000-14302 (Adjacent tissue transfer or rearrangement ...). CPT® distinguishes these codes by anatomical site and size. "The defect requiring the graft might...

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