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Aspiration of Fluid Collection

Date: Jan 22, 2018

Question:

I work for a hospital. Our physician performed a CT-guided aspiration of a midline paraspinal collection for diagnostic purposes. The physician describes the collection as a postprocedural hematoma of the subcutaneous tissue. The physician manually aspirated 15 cc of yellow material with a 5 French Yueh centesis catheter needle, which was submitted for culture and sensitivity. Would the appropriate code for this procedure be 10022 or 10160 (both with 77012 for CT guidance)?

Question ID : 9982
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