tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 21

Use 74150 and 76375 to Bill for Virtual Colonoscopies

CPT editorial panel reputed to be considering new codes Confused about how to code a virtual colonoscopy? Help is on the way.   Virtual colonoscopies are a new twist on existing procedures. "We're doing a standard CT scan of the abdomen with reconstructed images, because we're taking the images that were done in the direct axial plane and reconstructing them into a 3D image or multiplanar image of the body structures, in this case the intestines and colon," says coding expert Jeff Fulkerson in Atlanta.   "There are no CPT Codes that currently exist to report virtual colonoscopy...

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