HCPCS Coding Clinic (Q2 2025): Keep up with endoscopy Category III codes

The second quarter 2025 AHA Coding Clinic^® for HCPCS features endoscopy CPT^® Category III codes for treatment of esophageal or colonic strictures. You’ll also get helpful information about coding opioid treatment for Medicare beneficiaries.

To learn more about the topics in Volume 25, Number 2, subscribers to Codify by AAPC’s HCPCS Coding Clinic search tool can look up these terms or select the year and quarter for the issue:

• Category III codes, transendoscopic: 0884T-0886T
• Medicare-enrolled opioid treatment programs: G0534-G0536
• Modifier policy changes: JW, JZ
• New, deleted, revised HCPCS Level II codes, April 2025
• New, deleted, revised Proprietary Laboratory Analyses codes, July 2025
• New, revised vaccine codes, July 2025

The Ask the Editor section of this issue discusses coding for a variety of procedures. Subscribers to our HCPCS Coding Clinic tool can find additional information by searching for these terms:

• Evacuation, cheek hematoma: 10140
• Extensor tendon Tenosynovectomy: 26160
• Fulguration, granulation tissue: 17110
• Laparoscopic revision, Roux-en-Y: 44202
• Open matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte biopsy: 27412, 29870
• Trypan blue, complex cataract: 66982

Note: Tools and data available may vary based on your Codify by AAPC package.