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Endoscopic Bronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) Endoscopic Bronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) The EBUS procedure is similar to a bronchoscopy except that it uses ultrasound technology to visualize structures in and around the bronchial tree or the lungs. This allows the physician to see beyond the bronchial wall to the diseased tissue, lymph nodes or lesions outside of the bronchial airways.
EBUS combines a bronchoscope with ultrasound to visualize the bronchi and adjacent structures, and to obtain tissue for biopsy. In past years, CPTÂ® designated add-on code 31620 to describe EBUS during diagnostic or therapeutic bronchoscopy. For 2016, 31620 was deleted and replaced by two, new standalone codes to describe EBUS for the purpose of obtaining transtracheal and transbronchial sampling: