CPT 2010:
Follow 5 Do's and Don'ts to Gain Almost $175 on Improved Bronchoscopy Technique Without Unbundling
Published on Tue Nov 24, 2009
This simple question equips you with the right new marker placement code. Today's bronchoscopy is light years away from your father's bronchoscopy and CPT 2010 lets you reflect that change. "Navigational bronchoscopy allows the physician to see what he's doing more specifically," explained Scott Manaker, MD, PhD, the American College of Chest Physicians (AACP/ATS) representative to the Relative Value Update Committee (RUC) in the "Pulmonary Medicine" session at the AMA CPT and RBRVS Annual Symposium in Chicago. CPT 2010 creates two new codes for you to report this improved technology. Make sure you code for the procedure's phases and allowed items using these guidelines. Do: Code Navigation After Bronchoscopy/Marker Code "New code +31627 (Bronchoscopy, rigid or flexible, including fluoroscopic guidance, when performed; with computer-assisted, image-guided navigation [List separately in addition to code for primary procedure[s]) for navigational bronchoscopy lets us use your father's bronchoscope more specifically," related Manaker, who is [...]
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