tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 8

Part B Coding Coach: Learn the Ins and Outs of Neck Dissection Coding

Here’s your quick refresher on what each procedure involves.  If your surgeon documents that he performed a neck dissection, do you understand what happened? If not, keep reading for the rundown on the different types of dissections and what each involves.  Foundation: Seeing notes about a neck dissection means that your surgeon removed some (or all) of the patient’s lymph nodes in the neck, plus possibly removed some other structures. A “neck dissection” is another way of saying that a “lymphadenectomy” was performed. CPT® includes three procedure codes for neck dissection:  38720 &ndash...

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