AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 3 (March)
Surgery: Digestive System (Q&A) (March 2016)
March 2016 page 10a Surgery: Digestive System Question: How do you report the placement of two or more stents into separate bile ducts through a single percutaneous access? Answer: According to the CPT guidelines, code 47538, Placement of stent(s) into a bile duct, percutaneous, including diagnostic cholangiography, imaging guidance (eg, fluoroscopy and/or ultrasound), balloon dilation, catheter exchange(s) and catheter removal(s) when performed, and all associated radiological supervision and interpretation, each stent; existing access, 47539, new access, without placement of separate biliary drainage catheter, or 47540, new access, with placement of separate biliary drainage catheter (eg, external or internal-external) may...
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