tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2002 Issue 2

CCI, Medicare and CPT Weigh In on Abdominal Endograft

The road to coding endografts for treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) has been full of twists and turns ever since CPT introduced a "family of component procedures" that includes 12 different codes for AAA repair and associated procedures, with the type of prosthesis used, the route taken and the method used to position the prosthesis in the aorta distinguishing one code from another.  The struggle that physicians and payers have been engaged in over coding, payment and coverage of AAA endograft billing procedures may be behind some of the new edits appearing in Correct Coding Initiative version...

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