Question

Preoperative Diagnosis: Recurrent thyroglossal duct cyst

Postoperative Diagnosis: Same

Anesthesia: General

Procedural Note:

This 34 year old male patient was placed in the supine position. He was then placed under general anesthesia, and his neck was prepped and draped in the usual fashion and then flexed for the procedure. The skin around the cyst was circumferentially incised, and the cyst and the cyst duct were dissected free to the level of the hyoid bone. The mid-point of the hyoid bone was then excised. A 3-0 plain catgut triple strand suture was then used to ligate the thyroglossal duct. Iris scissors were used to remove the cyst, and hemostasis was obtained. The wound site was closed in layers. No significant blood loss occurred. The patient was in stable condition and sent to the recovery room.

CPT code(s) with description:

Answer 1

CPT code is abbreviated as current procedural terminology is used to code the medical, surgical or diagnostic procedure. It used between the physician or health care team members and health care insurance company.

In the given scenario, the procedure is thyroglossal cyst and cyst duct dissection.

CPT code for Thyroglossal duct cyst dissection is 60280