CPT® 2022 brought updates to the Musculoskeletal System coding guidelines, and the May 2022 CPT® Assistant walks you through them to help you understand the purpose of those changes.
This issue focuses on other 2022 changes and also looks ahead to evaluation and management (E/M) updates coming in 2023. Key in these codes and terms in our Code Connect: CPT® Assistant add-on to find articles from Volume 32, Issue 5:
- E/M changes, 2023
- Goniotomy, glaucoma: 65820, 66174, 66175, 66179, 66180, 66183-66185
- Musculoskeletal system guidelines, fracture, 2022: 20690, 20692, 29000, 29700, 29705, 29710, 29750, 54, 56, 76
- Nasal bone fracture, closed treatment: 21310, 21315, 21320, 62000, 62005, 62010
- Quantitative magnetic resonance, mp-MR: 0648T, 0649T, 0697T, 0698T
The May issue also includes a Questions and Answers section covering these topics:
- Arthroplasty, Outerbridge-Kashiwagi: 24006, 24999
- Excision, external hemorrhoid single column/group: 46250, 46255, 46999, 52
- Extracapsular cataract removal: 66174, 66984, 66991, 0671T
- Intrathecal pump, refill, electronic analysis: 62367-62370, 95990, 95991
- Ligation, arterialized vein: 36832, 37607
- Nerves, injected, L5, S1, S2, S3: 64450, 64451
- Octreotide injection, neuroendocrine pancreatic tumor: 96372, 96401, 96402, 96405, 96406, 96409, 96411, 96413, 96415-96417
- Rotator cuff repair: 23412, 29827, 22
- Suction, removal of adipose and lymphedematous tissue: 15832, 15876-15879, 50