Medical Coding

Answer: A - A bronchoscopy is a procedure that occurs when an endoscope is passed through the oropharynx and vocal chords and extended beyond the trachea into the right bronchus. According to the rules of endoscopies, the coder should report the farthest extent reached by the endoscope. In this case, the farthest extent was the bronchus, and so the endoscopy was a bronchoscopy. If the endoscope had only been extended to the larynx or trachea, the procedure would have been considered a laryngoscopy or tracheoscopy.