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Clip and Save: Thyroid Scan Codes

Beat thyroid coding challenges with this handy checklist

When reporting thyroid scan treatments for cancer patients, you have a lot more codes to remember than 79030 (Radiopharmaceutical ablation of gland for thyroid carcinoma) and 79035 (Radiopharmaceutical therapy for metastases of thyroid carcinoma).
Also know these other radiopharmaceutical therapy codes - you may encounter them with thyroid cancer treatment:
 
79000 - Radiopharmaceutical therapy, hyper-thyroidism; initial, including evaluation of patient
 
79001 - ... subsequent, each therapy
 
79020 - Radiopharmaceutical therapy, thyroid suppression (euthyroid cardiac disease), including evaluation of patient 
 
79100 - Radiopharmaceutical therapy, polycythemia vera, chronic leukemia, each treatment by intravenous injection
 
79200 - Intracavitary radioactive colloid therapy
 
79300 - Interstitial radioactive colloid therapy 
 
79400 - Radiopharmaceutical therapy, nonthyroid, nonhematologic by intravenous injection
 
79420 - Intravascular radiopharmaceutical therapy, particulate 
 
79440 - Intra-articular radiopharmaceutical therapy 
 
79999 - Unlisted radiopharmaceutical therapeutic procedure



- Published on 2004-04-16