What is a CPT\xae code? The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT\xae) codes offer doctors and health care professionals a uniform language for coding medical services and procedures to streamline reporting, increase accuracy and efficiency..
Code 88104 is reported for fluids, washings or brushings, except cervical or vaginal; smears with interpretation.
Code 88108 is reported for concentration technique; smears with interpretation.
Code 88112 is reported for selective cellular enhancement techniques with interpretation..
The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT\xae) code 88112 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Fluid washings, Hybridization and Sex Chromatin Identification Procedures..
CPT\xae Code 88142 in section: Cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation..
CPT Code 88305: Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination.
These examinations would be ordered as a gross and microscopic pathology exam or a gross and microscopic tissue exam..
CPT Code(s):
88305 (if cell block performed).
CPT code 88152 (cytopathology, slides, cervical or vaginal; with manual screening and computer-assisted rescreening under physician supervision) describes an improved technology using optical imaging equipment to routinely evaluate negative smears..
Pathology and Laboratory Procedures CPT\xae Code range 80047- 89398..
CPT Code:
88112 - CPT® Code in category:
The CPT code is 11420- 11426.
Pilonidal is the region where rear end buttock crease starts.
The cyst in this region is removed by excisional procedure and the pus inside it is drained.
During surgery, some tissues around the cyst are also removed.
The CPT code for this procedure is 11770.
The correct CPT code to report is CPT code 28043 (Excision, tumor, soft tissue of foot or toe, subcutaneous; less than 1.5 cm).
You would not report a soft tissue tumor excision with the benign skin lesion excision codes.
