tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2004 Issue 12

Cardiovascular System: New AAA Repair Codes Top the List of Vascular Changes

You'll also have a choice of 4 ablation therapy and 2 transcather codes in 2005You'll have to begin reading operative reports for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms a bit more closely from now on, because CPT adds a new code to describe a variation on these procedures for 2005.Coders must distinguish AAA repair codes according to the type of prosthesis the surgeon places: aorto-aortic tube (34800), modular bifurcated prosthesis with one docking limb (34802), unibody bifurcated prosthesis (34804), or aorto-uniiliac or aorto-unifemoral (34805)."Two docking limbs" is the key phrase: The new variation, 34803 (Endovascular repair of...

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