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PATHOLOGY

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY – REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE PROCEDURES (88300-89398)

1. What code should you report for a pathology consultation performed during surgery?
2. What code should you report for a consultation and report on referred slides prepared elsewhere?
3. Give the correct CPT for the surgical pathology done after appendectomy.The pathologist perfoms both gross & microscopic examination ?
4. What is the correct CPT code for gross & microscopic examination of a core biopsy of an upper thigh mass ?
5. Dr. Jeffrey a  pathologist performed gross & microscopic examination of a breast tissue following reduction surgery & kidney tissue obtained from biopsy from a same patient. Code the CPT for examination of both tissues?
6. Dr. Lyonnel performed an intra-operative consultation on a bile duct tumor requiring frozen section and cytological evaluation to a bladder tumor. How would you report his professional services?
7. A surgical specimen was removed from the proximal jejunum during a resection for adenocarcinoma and was submitted to surgical pathology for gross and microscopic examination. The correct code for this service is:
8. Moses  a patient has an iliac crest bone marrow biopsy. The physician suspects the patient has myelofibrosis. The bone marrow specimen is sent to pathology for gross and microscopic exam. What is the appropriate code for the pathologist’s service?
9. Chrisa pathologist performs a comprehensive consultation and report after reviewing a patient’s records, specimens and official findings from other sources. What is the correct code?
10. Give the CPT code for cryopreservation of testicular reproductive tissue?
11. Patient is undergoing in vitro fertilization to get pregnant. Following the retrieval of follicular fluid from the patient, the physician uses a microscope to examine the fluid to identify the ooctyes. What is the code for the laboratory service?
12. Sperm is being prepared through a washing method to get it ready for the insemination of five oocytes for fertilization by directly injecting the sperm into each oocyte. Choose the CPT® codes to report this service.