tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 41

CARDIOTHORACIC CODING: Why CPT 2007 Makes Billing 33254-33256 Almost Impossible

Navigating new maze codes leaves coders right back where they started.You may have celebrated new maze procedure codes too quickly.CPT 2007 includes five new codes for the maze procedure (33254-33256 and 33265-33266) that allow you to specify whether the procedure was modified, extensive or extensive with cardiopulmonary bypass, plus two endoscopic codes. Coders rejoiced because "it will be useful to distinguish" between the types of maze procedures, according to coder Michele Wann.Bad news: But CPT 2007 also includes a note stating that you can't bill 33254-33256 with any open-heart surgery codes. This will reduce the usefulness...

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