AMA CPT® Assistant - 2019 Issue 2 (February)
Coding Correction: Coding Incompetent-Veins Treatment (February 2019)
February 2019 page 9 Coding Correction: Coding Incompetent-Veins Treatment In the March 2018 issue of CPT® Assistant, the second-to-last paragraph of the article "Coding Incompetent-Veins Treatment" (p 3) notes the following: Similar to the codes introduced for non-compounded foam (36465, 36466), codes 36473 and 36483 may be reported only once per extremity per day. However, this sentence should read: Similar to the codes introduced for non-compounded foam (36465, 36466), codes 36473, 36474, 36482, and 36483 may be reported only once per extremity per day. Add-on codes 36474 and 36483 are reported for subsequent vein(s) treated in the same extremity...
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