General Question for the Week of August 29, 2022

Question:

Is it ever possible to assign two primary FNA biopsy codes at the same session?

Answer:

Yes. When two separate lesions are sampled using two different types of modality-specific guidance, each lesion is assigned the modality-specific primary code. Any additional lesions studied using the same type of guidance would be described with the modality-specific add-on code.

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