tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2022 Issue Q1

CPT® 2022: Here’s Why You Can’t Miss This Foreign-Body Guideline Change

See how this affects coding for breast implant removal. Who knew a little paragraph defining “foreign body” and “implant” could have such a big impact on coding? That’s one little paragraph in the CPT® Surgery section guidelines you can’t afford to ignore when reporting your surgeons’ breast implant removal procedures in 2022. Let our experts guide you through this change to find out when you should — and shouldn’t — revise how you code breast implant removals. When Is an Implant a Foreign Body? The new guideline begins with instructions that help you understand...

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