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CPT 2011:

Rejoice: You Can Report Home Sleep Studies Type III and IV with 95800, 95801

Published on Sat Nov 20, 2010

Check out this new bronchoscopy with balloon occlusion code. If you perform sleep studies, prepare to upgrade your coding style come Jan. 1. CPT 2011 reserves some big changes for pulmonology, so find out which code sets make it to next year with revisions, and which new codes you'll have to learn to use. Warning: You've got to get started with CPT 2011 codes on or after Jan. 1. If you continued using inactive or unrevised codes, you'd surely be risking denials. Sleep Study Debuts Two New Codes What's more exciting than the completion over the past three years of the transition of home sleep study codes from temporary G codes to CPT category III codes to accepted CPT category I codes? The good news: Home sleep studies type II had made a straight transition from G0398 to 95806 in CPT 2010. The codes for home sleep studies type III [...]
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