tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 39

SURGERY: CPT 2006 Revises Coding For Vaginal Graft Revision

New codes cover renal pelvis catheter proceduresSoon you won't have to use unlisted code 58999 to report vaginal graft revision any more. CPT has added CPT 57295 (Revision [including removal], vaginal approach). "While we have a code for the revision of a sling procedure for stress urinary incontinence, the only way to report the revision of a vaginal graft was to use 58999," says Melanie Witt, an independent coding consultant in Guadalupita, NM. Another 2006 addition is an add-on code for endometrial biopsies: 58110 (Endometrial sampling [biopsy] performed in conjunction with colposcopy [list separately in addition to code...

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