Patients with needle localization specimens which are not amenable to intraoperative imaging such as mri needle wire localization, or targets which are tentatively identified on mammogram or ultrasound which do not contain a biopsy marker but which can be verified on intraoperative inspection or pathology (e. g. , needle biopsy site where the biopsy marker is remote from the actual biopsy site)
This is the 2013 version of HCPCS G8873 - please refer to the 2016 HCPCS code set for the latest version.
Added on Sunday, January 01, 2012
Status changed on Tuesday, January 01, 2013 to: Change in long description of procedure or modifier code
