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Advanced interventional pulmonary procedures of the airways, pleural space, and mediastinum continue to evolve and be refined. Healthcare, finance, and clinical professionals are challenged by both the indications and related coding complexities. As the scope of interventional pulmonary procedures expands with advanced technique and medical innovation, program planning and ongoing collaboration between clinicians, finance executives, and reimbursement experts are key elements for success. We describe advanced bronchoscopic procedures, appropriate CPT coding, valuations, and necessary modifiers to fill the knowledge gap between basic and advanced procedural coding. Our approach is to balance the description of procedures with the associated coding in a way that is of utility to the proceduralist, the coding specialists, and other non-clinical professionals.