Advanced Search

General Surgery Coding Alert

Reader Question:

Focus Breast Biopsy Codes

Published on Tue Nov 18, 2014

You’ve reached your limit of free articles. Already a subscriber? Log in.

Not a subscriber? Subscribe today to continue reading this article. Plus, you’ll get:

Simple explanations of current healthcare regulations and payer programs
Real-world reporting scenarios solved by our expert coders
Industry news, such as MAC and RAC activities, the OIG Work Plan, and CERT reports
Instant access to every article ever published in Revenue Cycle Insider
6 annual AAPC-approved CEUs
The latest updates for CPT®, ICD-10-CM, HCPCS Level II, NCCI edits, modifiers, compliance, technology, practice management, and more

Other Articles in this issue of

General Surgery Coding Alert

CPT® 2015:
Refine Recent Esophagoscopy Overhaul With New/Revised Codes
Use notes to clarify coding bundles, too. Hopefully you’re used to the esophageal endoscopy coding [...]

ICD-10:
Zenker's Diverticulum Gets Direct Crosswalk
But congenital esophageal diverticulum is different. You have a new CPT® code for the Zenker’s [...]

Medicare Programs:
Avoid Penalties and Bring Home PQRS Pay
Get on EHR bandwagon, too. The cost of ignoring Medicare incentives keeps going up, so [...]

Global Surgical Package:
See What All '0s' Might Mean for Your Surgery Practice
Don’t increase your follow-up care. You’ve seen CMS’s proposal to eliminate 10- and 90-day surgical [...]

Reader Question:
Follow Guidelines to Master This Vascular Case
Question: Our surgeon performed an atherectomy in the posterior tibial artery and the tibioperoneal trunk of [...]

Reader Question:
Focus Breast Biopsy Codes
Question: Which CPT® codes distinguish between needle-core versus rotating biopsy device for breast biopsy? Tennessee Subscriber [...]

Reader Question:
19304 Focus is Skin Sparing
Question: I’ve heard that the distinguishing difference between 19303 and 19304 is whether the surgeon removes [...]

You Be the Coder:
Separate Session Warrants Separate Code
Question: Our surgeon biopsied a suspicious bleeding lesion during an anoscopy procedure. Later the same day, [...]

View All