Inpatient coding tip
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, July 22, 2005
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In 2005, new CPT codes were added to cover preparations needed by a transplant team to harvest and prepare organs for transplant. Typically these types of surgeries have two operating teams in the same theater, one at the table with the recipient, the other working with the donor-called the "back bench." In the digestive system, the following three new sets of codes are used with these procedures:
* Intestinal transplants
- 44132
- 44133
- 44715
- 44720
- 44721
* Liver transplants
- 47133 - 47147
* Pancreas transplants
- 48550 - 48556
Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the new online course, "Inpatient Coding Module: The digestive system & gastrointestinal disease." For more information on this and other courses in our Coding library, go to www.hcprofessor.com and click on Coding and Reimbursement.
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