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Specialty Groups — Oncology

Medical Oncology Code Changes

ACOA Coding Minute

OPPS Brachytherapy C Codes

In addition to the Level 1 HCPCS codes (aka, CPT codes), hospitals also have to be certain that national Level 2 HCPCS codes are updated to the Charge Description Master (CDM). A subset of these Level 2 codes include ‘C’ codes that are reported for the radioactive source used for outpatient radiation therapy.

C1716 Brachytherapy source, Gold 198, per source
C1717 Brachytherapy source, High Dose Rate Iridium 192, per source
C1718 Brachytherapy source, Iodine 125, per source
C1719