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CPT codes:

32020

Tube thoracostomy

ICD-9 codes:

32020	Tube thoracostomy
43.04	Insertion of intercostals catheter for drainage

Editor(s): Todd W Thomsen, MD Todd W Thomsen, MD

Attending Physician
Department of Emergency Medicine
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA

Division of Emergency Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | Gary S Setnik, MD, FACEP Gary S Setnik, MD, FACEP

Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Section Editor(s): David Feller-Kopman, MD David Feller-Kopman, MD

Director, Medical Procedure Service
Interventional Pulmonology
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
One Deaconess Rd, Suite 201
Boston, MA