tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 42

DERMATOLOGY: Be Careful When Matching Products To New Skin Graft Codes

Try creating a "cheat sheet" to safeguard your reimbursementCPT 2006 takes a leap to catch up with new skin-graft technologies--and now you need to jump to keep up.Next year's coding manual adds 37 new skin graft codes and deletes four. It also renames the skin grafts section "Skin Replacement Surgery And Skin Substitutes." (See PBI, Vol. 6, No. 38.)The codes seem designed to represent some new techniques and procedures, says Teresa Thompson with TM Consulting in Sequim, WA. They include new codes for autografts (15100-15261), allografts (15170-15176) and xenografts (15400-15431)--and many of the codes are specific...

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