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CPT® 49423, Under Drainage Catheter Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 49423 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Drainage Catheter Procedures.

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In this procedure the provider removes an already existing catheter that a provider is using to drain an abdominal cyst or an abscess, and replaces it with a new drainage catheter.

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Tunnel Peritoneal Cath (Pleurx) Exchange?
I would use 49423 and 75984 for the S&I.... [ Read More ]
Biliary drainage catheter removal and replacement with 2 drains
We have a patient with complex fluid collections extending along the dome of the Liver and along the medial side of the Liver into the gallbladder fossa. Contrast was injected via the existing drain d... [ Read More ]
chest tube exchange
[b]Chest tube xchange[/b] Kristen, I have asked this question of CSI, and I was told that, yes, 49423...as it states in the book...exchange of any drainage catheter. I feel comfortable with this code... [ Read More ]
chest tube exchange
[QUOTE="margaret fahy, post: 298001, member: 64410"]Hi, It would be 49423/75984. Margie[/QUOTE] I was just curious where you got that from - ACR, AAPC, AMA, etc. We recently attended the CSI CROWN S... [ Read More ]
chest tube exchange
[b]49423-chest tube xchange[/b] Hi, It would be 49423/75984. Margie... [ Read More ]
chest tube exchange
[QUOTE="MLS2, post: 47710, member: 31818"]I would think that a chest tube placed for drainage would fall under cpt 49423 Exchange of previously placed abscess or cyst drainage catheter under radiolog... [ Read More ]
Pleural drainage cath exchange ?
[QUOTE="margaret fahy, post: 293953, member: 64410"]Hi, You can use 49423/75894 for this exchange. You can use this code for exchange of any previously placed drainage catheter for which there is no ... [ Read More ]
Pleural drainage cath exchange ?
[b]Xchange pleural cath[/b] Hi, You can use 49423/75894 for this exchange. You can use this code for exchange of any previously placed drainage catheter for which there is no better code. I have che... [ Read More ]
49423/49424 ??
I am asking myself the same thing. Insurance carriers are denying the 49424 when billed with 49423. But we were taught to bill both together.... [ Read More ]
49423 & 49424
Can you bill these two codes together if you are checking and changing an abscess catheter?:rolleyes:... [ Read More ]
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