tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 14

Reader Question: Watch Modifiers for Bilateral Thyroid Lobectomy

Question: My physician performed surgery on both the right and the left lobes of the thyroid. The CPT® book says code 60210 is a unilateral procedure. Can you please clarify whether we can only bill 60210 one time regardless of whether just the right, just the left, or both left and right lobes are addressed?   Answer:  A better option as a starting point might be code 60212 (Partial thyroid lobectomy, unilateral; with contralateral subtotal lobectomy, including isthmusectomy), which specifies a unilateral procedure. You shouldn’t report 60212 with modifier 50 (Bilateral procedure) when your surgeon addresses both...

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