AMA CPT® Assistant - 2011 Issue 1 (January)
Surgery: Female Genital System (Q & A) (January 2011)
January 2011 page 9b Surgery: Female Genital System Question: My physician is performing hysteroscopic radiofrequency tubal ligation with implants (Adiana® procedure). Is there a specific CPT code to report this sterilization procedure? Answer: Yes. Hysteroscopic radiofrequency tubal ligation with implants is reported with code 58565, Hysteroscopy, surgical; with bilateral fallopian tube cannulation to induce occlusion by placement of permanent implants. In this procedure, a catheter is paced in the patient’s fallopian tube using a hysteroscope. After low-level radiofrequency (RF) energy is applied to remove certain cells within the fallopian tube, a very small implant is inserted into the...
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