CPT Corner Articles

CPT Corner articles from recent issues of Plastic Surgery News

• Adding clarity to questions that can arise with tissue graft coding (May 2008)
• Specific CPT codes are necessary for wound exploration procedures (April 2008)
• Scar revision coding may be challenging (March 2008)
• Adjacent tissue transfer coding need not be confusing (February 2008)
• New plastic surgery codes appear in CPT 2008 (January 2008)
• Annual quiz highlights new 2007 CPT codes (December 2007)
• Know what's global in trigger release and stenosing tenosynovitis (October/November 2007)
• Summer potpourri highlights questions from membership (September 2007)
• Place of service absolutely impacts Medicare reimbursement (August 2007)
• Coding is important when sitting for the plastic surgery board exam (July 2007)
• Clarifying the distinctions between assistant and co-surgeon (June 2007)
• Working with CPT code 19380 need not be confusing (May 2007)
• Numbers, not descriptors, have changed in new 2007 CPT codes (April 2007)
• Panniculectomy and abdominoplasty codes now separate (March 2007)
• Forehead flap code is introduced in 2007 (February 2007)
• New codes are used for surgical wound preparation (January 2007)
• Do your coding skills pass muster? (December 2006)
• How should a surgeon report tendon or joint synovectomies? (October/November 2006)
• Definitions don't need to be complicated with a complex repair (September 2006)
• What constitutes a muscle flap in CPT coding? (August 2006)
• Tissue expander breast reconstruction poses coding challenges (June 2006)
• Is it modifier -59 or -51? Which do I use?  (May 2006)
• Abdominal wall reconstruction requires many sets of codes  (April 2006)
• Add-on codes need not create confusion  (March 2006)
• 'Cheat sheets' can help novice and experienced coders alike  (February 2006)
• Skin replacement surgery coding changes in 2006  (January 2006)
• How well do you know your CPT coding?  (December 2005)
• Osteomyelitis debridement must be correctly reported  (September 2005)
• Sternal wound procedures require coding accuracy  (August 2005)
• Know what is global in carpal tunnel surgery  (July 2005)
• Membership inquiries underscore coding principles  (June 2005)
• Rigorous RVU analyses are critical to your practice  (April 2005)
• Medicare does not cover all skin lesion excisions  (May 2005)
• Coding necrotizing infection procedures is complex  (March 2005)
• It's not just an incision and drainage  (February 2005)
• Use new joint manipulation codes accurately (January 2005)