Pathology Consultation Coding - CPT Code By The Pathologist
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Pathology Consultation Coding - CPT
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The next question I was going to answer is on Pathology Consultation Coding. We had a student that was struggling with this question from our practice exam and it says:
Q: “During surgery to remove a malignant neoplasm of laryngeal cartilages, one frozen section is sent for pathological consultation to confirm the adequacy of the surgical margins. A second specimen required frozen sections on two tissue blocks. What CPT code(s) are reported by the pathologist?”
A: I actually did a poll and don’t worry, you don’t have your books or whatever, I just want you to kind of take a gut feel for what you think the answer would be on this. This is what the answer key look like. Answer A) 88329, 88331, 88332x2; Answer B)88331x2, and one unit of 88332;Answer C) 88331, 88332 x 2;Answer D) 88321
We had a frozen section of one specimen and two frozen sections of the second specimen. 47% voted, don’t be shy. Here we go, I’m going to close the poll in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… OK, 6% said A, 22% said B, and 78%said C.
Let’s take a look… What I did is, this is just a little copy and paste of my CPT manual. Part of the techniques that we teach at CCO in the CPT manuals is bubbling and highlighting and note writing to make the guidelines jump out at us.
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