Interventions and Procedures (OPCS) codes in England and International Classification of Diseases ninth revision (ICD9), ICD10, and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes in the United States.#We identified 66,879 radical prostatectomies in England and 79,358 in the United States during 2005...
(CPT) codes to identify a sample of adults aged 18 to 64 years enrolled in an employer-sponsored health plan who underwent either an open or robotic radical prostatectomy (RP), hysterectomy (HYS), partial colectomy (PC), radical nephrectomy (RN), or partial nephrectomy (PN) for a solid-...
Association (AMA) determined that there was no need for a new CPT or unique modifier for surgical procedures completed with robotic-assistance. As a result, the majority of leading payers, such as a Medicare, CIGNA, United Healthcare and most BlueCross BlueShield plans, consider robotic-...
Design : Financial analysis comparing robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) and laparoscopic-assisted prostatectomy (LAP). Setting : Tertiary academic medical center. Interventions : Cost analysis using CPT coding for each procedure Main Outcome Measures: Revenue, total cost (sum of direct ...
To evaluate the differential activity in robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) by urologic surgeon gender. This was a retrospective study of American Board of Urology surgical case logs from 2012-2022. The CPT-coded laparoscopic procedures included werePartial Nephrectomy (50543), Radical ...