tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 31

Endoscopy Coding: AMA Announces New Category III Endoscopy Codes

Caution: You won’t be able to report them until 2016. Practices seeking new nasal endoscopy codes will be happy to see the AMA’s latest Category III code additions, which could become part of your coding arsenal effective Jan. 1, 2016.  Dig Into the Descriptors The recently-announced codes are as follows: 0406T – Nasal endoscopy, surgical, ethmoid sinus; placement of drug eluting implant  0407T -- … with biopsy, polypectomy or debridement. These codes address the use of PROPEL drug-eluting sinus implants, specifically when the implants are placed in a separate encounter, not at the time of...

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