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74425, 50394, 50684

Date: Sep 16, 2011

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In your Interventional Radiology 2011 Coding manual, pp 277-278, you indicate that codes 50684 and 50688 are retrograde procedures performed via an ileal conduit. The CPT Tabular instructs that the supervision and interpretation(S&I) code to report with 50684 is 74425. A similar note is included under code 50690 in CPT Tabular. Code 74425 is the S&I code for an antegrade procedure. Can you please clear up my confusion whether the S&I code for 50684, 50690 should be 74420 vs 74425? Thank you.

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