CPT Corner Articles

• Adding clarity to questions that can arise with tissue graft coding (May 2008)
• Adjacent tissue transfer coding need not be confusing (February 2008)
• Forehead flap code is introduced in 2007 (February 2007)
• What constitutes a muscle flap in CPT coding? (August 2006)
• Skin replacement surgery coding changes in 2006 (January 2006) 
• Sternal wound procedures require coding accuracy (August 2005) 
• Coding of omental flap procedures has improved (March 2003) 
• Skin graft clarification, and how to use grafting codes (July 2001) 
• Coding adjacent tissue transfers (Sept/Oct 2000) 
• Cross finger flap coding has changed for 2000(February 2000) 
• Don't let CPT add-on codes cause confusion (April 1999) 
• Free flap breast reconstruction challenges coding skills (June 1997) 
• Free flap codes dominate new 1997 additions (January 1997) 
• Everything (almost) you always wanted to know about flaps and grafts (June 1995) 
• March CPT Corner clarification: add-on codes (May 1995) 
• Skin graft coding requires precision in dictation (March 1995) 
• Distant flap coding and planned stage procedures (July 1994) 
• Adjacent tissue transfers (June 1994) 
• Muscle Flaps (April 1994) 
• Coding for chest wall reconstruction (March 1993) 
• Stacked procedure codes must be used precisely (October/November 1992) 
• Plastic surgeons should not unbundle free-flap codes (September 1992) 
• Changes in CPT Book ease coding for decubitus ulcers (May 1992) 
• Staged-flap procedures updated in '92 CPT Book (April 1992) 

Related Articles:

• CPT 1998 heralds new codes (January 1998) 
• New 1997 Codes for bone, upper extremity procedures (February 1997) 
• Suggestions offered for challenging microtia coding (March 1997) 
• Coding extensive adnexal lesion excisions (September 1996) 
• Challenges in cleft palate coding (August 1996) 
• Scar revision procedures require a variety of codes (June 1996) 
• Medicare global surgery period (October/November 1995) 
• Potpourri: 1995 CPT code changes (February 1995) 
• Mandibular fractures require accurate coding (August 1994) 
• Skull Base Surgery (March 1994) 
• Coding for excision of malignant lesions (July 1993) 
• Coding for lesion excisions clarified (June 1993)