What is a SAVI catheter?

What is a SAVI catheter?

SAVI Brachy uses thin tubes (catheters) to deliver radiation directly to the lumpectomy site. The catheters gently expand to fit the size and shape of the tumor cavity.

What does CPT code 19120 mean?

CPT® Code. Description. 19120. Excision of cyst, fibroadenoma, or other benign or malignant tumor, aberrant breast tissue, duct lesion, nipple or areolar lesion, open, male or female, one or more lesion.

What does CPT code 38900 mean?

CPT® Code 38900 – Other Procedures of the Hemic or Lymphatic System – Codify by AAPC. Overview.

What is a SAVI SCOUT procedure?

“The SAVI SCOUT system is used before a patient’s breast surgery and eliminates needle localizations on the day of surgery. The system features a safe, non-radioactive radar to detect a reflector that is placed at the tumor site at any time during the continuum of care.

What is 76 modifier used for?

Modifier 76 is used to report a repeat procedure or service by the same physician and is appended to the procedure to report: Repeat procedures performed on the same day. Indicate that a procedure or service was repeated subsequent to the original procedure or service.

What does CPT code 19357 include?

breast reconstruction
CPT 19357 is used for tissue expander placement in breast reconstruction; includes subsequent expansion(s); and is separately re- portable if used in flap reconstruction. There’s now clear language that the placement of a TE is separately reported with a lat dorsi flap (19361).

Does CPT 19120 need a modifier?

Code 19120 is valued at 5.92 physician work relative value units (RVUs). For Medicare, appending modifier 50 appropriately will raise this value by half, to a total of 8.88 physician work RVUs.

What does CPT 19301 include?

Oncologic resection with attention to margins (lumpectomy or partial mastectomy), code 19301, describes the procedure where margin status is indicated by any method and may include excision of additional surrounding tissue for margins.

What is the CPT code 19125?

excision of breast lesions
CPT codes 19120 and 19125 are used for excision of breast lesions, where attention to surgical margins and assurance of complete tumor resection is unnecessary.

What is procedure code 38525?

CPT® 38525, Under Excision Procedures on the Lymph Nodes and Lymphatic Channels. The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 38525 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range – Excision Procedures on the Lymph Nodes and Lymphatic Channels.