tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 21

DIGESTIVE SURGERY: Avoid Billing For Esophagoscopy, Endoscopy With Digestive Surgeries

Colonoscopy, laparoscopy become part of stomach procedures If your physician is performing a lot of digestive system surgeries, you'll have to be more careful about billing endo-scopies and colonoscopies with those procedures after July 1. Thanks to CCI Version 10.2 , CPTcode 43201 (Esophagoscopy, rigid or flexible; diagnostic, with directed submucosal injec-tion(s), any substance) will become a component of dozens of codes in the digestive surgery area, particularly repair (43300-43352), excision (43610-43641) and other procedures (43800-43865). Almost every code in these areas will be a comprehensive code with 43201 after July 1, but you'll be able to bill with...

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