Friday, March 4, 2011

Medicare Screening Colonoscopy

When a Medicare patient has come for screening colonoscpy and it has turned to therapeutic procedure, no G code is given. A PT modifier is appended to the CPT 4 code.

For example:
A medicare patient came for screening colonoscopy and a polyp was found and removed, then it is coded as 45380-PT.

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