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CPT® 2013:

Start Learning These Allergy Changes and Subtle E/M Revisions Now

Published on Tue Sep 25, 2012

New CPT® manual will feature 186 new codes and 119 deletions, AMA reveals.Although the 2013 edition of the CPT® Manual is still being printed, the Otolaryngology Coding Alert has had a sneak peek at the codes that you'll use next year -- and uncovered allergy changes and deletions that could help your practice.Among the changes effective Jan. 1, you'll find 119 deletions, 186 new codes, 263 revisions, and adjustments to 18 CPT® modifiers, the AMA announced in an Aug. 16 article published in its American Medical News.For example, you'll find two new codes for intraoperative neurophysiology monitoring (IONM): 95940 (Continuous intraoperative neurophysiology monitoring in the operating room, one on one monitoring requiring personal attendance, each 15 minutes [List separately in addition to code for primary procedure]) and 95941 (Continuous intraoperative neurophysiology monitoring, from outside the operating room [remote or nearby] or for monitoring of more than one case [...]
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