CPT^® 60260, Under Excision Procedures on the Thyroid Gland

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 60260 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Excision Procedures on the Thyroid Gland.

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The procedure involves surgical removal of the entire remaining thyroid tissue left from a previous thyroid operation, such as lobectomy. The provider typically performs this when there is evidence of cancer in the existing lobe of the thyroid. The procedure is also known as completion thyroidectomy.

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60220 vs 60260

patient has previous total right thyroid lobectomy - patient has multinodular goiter in remaining lobe comes back to have left lobe removed- is this coded as 60220 LT Left lobectomy or 60260 LT c... [ Read More ]

thyroid lobectomy and total in same operative session

Hi - this should be coded as 60240 for a total thyroidectomy when the removal of the entire thyroid gland occurs during a single surgery. The AMA has provided a couple of examples of when 60260 would ... [ Read More ]

thyroid lobectomy and total in same operative session

so my question is: lobectomy done path comes back malignant, in the same operative session the physician removes the entire thyroid so am i to code 60260 for all remaining tissue or total thyroide... [ Read More ]

Thyroid Goiter

Would someone please help me with this coding headache??? Patient had a Re-Exploration of the neck with Left Thyroid Lobectomy and removal of a large substernal pretracheal goiter. The patient had a p... [ Read More ]

Completion Thyroidectomy

Need you guys opinion on how to code for this surgeons note correctly. Pt underwent a [B]Total Right Thyroidectomy[/B] (60220) 20yrs ago. During pre-op testing a thyroid US confirmed that there was n... [ Read More ]

Add on code 60512

In the CPT book +60512 Parathyroid autotransplantation (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure) (Use 60512 in conjunction with 60500, 60502, 50505, 60212, 60225, 60240, 60252, 6026... [ Read More ]

Add on code 60512

Question about completion thyroidectomy

My co-worker and I have been having the same discussion; our surgeon's are discribing this scenerio as "Completion Thyroidectomies" but in reality, they are not; thru all my extensive research and dis... [ Read More ]

Question about completion thyroidectomy

I've been coding for our practice for about a year. The way I've been taught to code this type of scenario is to use CPT 60260 - Thyroidectomy, removal of all remaining thyroid tissue following previ... [ Read More ]

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