There is no specific CPT code for medicinal leech therapy: Codes requiring a 7th character are represented by "+": Information in the below has been added for clarification purposes. Table: CPT Codes / HCPCS Codes / ICD-10 Codes Code Aetna considers bagged larval therapy/medical maggots experimental and investigational for all other indications (e.g., burn wounds and hand injury complicated by mycotic infection) because of insufficient evidence of its safety and effectiveness.Non-healing traumatic or post surgical-wounds orĪetna considers bagged larval therapy an equally effective medically necessary alternative to medical maggot therapy.
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Salvage of vascularly compromised replants (limbs or other body parts re-attached after traumatic amputation).Īetna considers medicinal leech therapy experimental and investigational for treating cancer pain, complex regional pain syndrome (i.e., CRPS-I, CRPS-II), epicondylitis, epidermoid cysts (also called epidermal cysts or epidermal inclusion cysts), hematomas, hemorrhoids, knee osteoarthritis, inadequate arterial supply or tissue ischemia, low back pain, priapism, rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal diseases, thumb osteoarthritis, and for all other indications because of insufficient evidence of its safety and effectiveness.Īetna considers medical maggots medically necessary for the debridement of any of the following non-healing necrotic skin and soft tissue wounds:.Salvage of vascularly compromised flaps (muscle, skin, and fat tissue surgically removed from one part of body to another) or
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