"The CPT code set is the foundation for the efficient and effective exchange of standardized information in a data-driven health system, facilitating the reporting, measuring, analyzing, researching and benchma
Ultrasound guidance are used for performing percutaneous surgeries. Hence, most of the procedures likethoracentesis,breast biopsy,Myelogram,spinal epidural injectionetc. needs the help of guidance for performing these procedures. Hence, the primary code is always the surgery procedure code followed by th...
A new instructional note has been added: “Codes for obtaining autogenous bone, cartilage, tendon, fascia lata grafts, bone marrow, or other tissues through separate skin/fascial incision should be reported separately, unless the code descriptor references the harvesting of the graft or implant (eg...