Dr. Stephen Williams on costs of surgical treatments for bladder cancer
Williams discusses a study comparing costs for radical versus partial cystectomy.
In this episode, Stephen B. Williams, MD, MS, discusses findings from a paper published in Urology titled, Comparing Costs of Radical Versus Partial Cystectomy for Patients Diagnosed With Localized Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: Understanding the Value of Surgical Care, for which he served as a study author. Williams is chief of urology and professor of urology and radiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Coding Q&A: Billing for female total urethrectomy with complete cystectomy
January 5th 2024"When we think about a typical procedure for performing a radical cystectomy for cancer with an ileal conduit, that would typically involve lymph node dissection, and therefore CPT 51595 would be best chosen to report that combined procedure," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.
