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  • Otolaryngology
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Nationwide databases are crucial for evaluating surgical practice patterns and outcomes.
  • Analysis using billing codes can be unreliable due to inconsistent Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code application.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate variability in CPT codes used for vestibular schwannoma resection.
  • To identify factors contributing to coding variations in vestibular schwannoma surgery.

Main Methods:

  • Reviewed 274 vestibular schwannoma resections from two institutions, classifying surgical approaches.
  • Assessed assigned CPT codes and their correlation with surgical approach, surgeon, coding specialty, and year.
  • Compared CPT code incidence in institutional data with the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database (2010-2014).

Main Results:

  • Most institutional cases (65%) used skull base codes, while NSQIP cases (76%) predominantly used a single craniotomy code.
  • Skull base code usage increased institutionally but remained stable in NSQIP over a decade.
  • CPT codes did not consistently align with the actual surgical approaches for vestibular schwannomas.

Conclusions:

  • Significant variability exists in vestibular schwannoma surgery coding across institutions, practices, and national databases.
  • Exercise caution when interpreting data from aggregated billing code-based databases.
  • Standardization of CPT code assignments for similar surgical approaches within institutions is suggested.