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Cystoscopy or Cystourethroscopy. A procedure usually performed by a urologist that allows the physician to see the inside of the lower urinary tract (urethra, prostate, bladder neck, and bladder). Cystoscopy can be used to detect abnormalities of the lower urinary tract or to assist in transurethral surgery.
Many times with cystourethroscopy procedures coding can be determined by whether you are reporting based on Medicare guidelines or by AMA guidelines, but with clarification by CPT Assistant in August 2009, resection of bladder tumors would be reported the same way regardless of which guidelines you are following.esection of Bladder Tumors. 1  For example, if 3 small tumors and one large tumor were removed â only CPT code 52240 (Large bladder tumor(s)) would be reported.