AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 4 (April)
Surgery: Digestive System (Q&A) (April 2012)
April 2012 page 17b Question: A patient has angiodysplasia of the intestine and presents for ablation of the same and is not actively bleeding at the time of a small bowel enteroscopy. May code 44378 be reported for control of hemorrhage if the patient has a history of chronic intermittent bleeds due to angiodysplasia or must the patient be actively bleeding? Answer: It is appropriate to report code 44378, Small intestinal endoscopy, enteroscopy beyond second portion of duodenum, including ileum; with control of bleeding (eg, injection, bipolar cautery, unipolar cautery, laser, heater probe, stapler, plasma coagulator), for the treatment...
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