The American Medical Association (AMA) released the October 2023 CPT® Assistant. The evolving nature of medicine is on display in the articles on virtual reality (VR) procedural dissociation, COVID-19 mutation identification and variant analysis, and measurement of dynamic joint motion and muscle function incorporating multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) with concurrent surface mechanomyography (sMMG) sensors.
To find articles from Volume 33, Issue 10, subscribers to Code Connect — Codify by AAPC’s CPT® Assistant search add-on — can check for these topics and codes when they log in:
- Consultation, erratum: 99252-99255
- COVID-19, erratum: 91318, 91319
- Measurement of mechanomyography, sMMG sensors, inertial measurement units: 0778T
- Mutation identification, variant analysis, SARS-CoV-2: 87913
- Virtual reality procedural dissociation: 0771T-0774T
The October issue also includes a Questions and Answers section covering these topics and codes:
- Cardiovascular, medicine, 3D mapping, point-to-point mapping: 93609, 93653
- Cardiovascular, surgery, selective catheter placement, arterial, left and right: 36215, 59, LT, RT, XS
- Digestive, surgery, incarcerated incisional hernias: 49594, 49596, 49618
- Evaluation and management, consultations: 99202-99215, 99242-99245
- Integumentary, surgery, indocyanine green, mastectomy skin flaps: 15860
- Musculoskeletal, surgery:
- Arthrodesis, decortication, posterolateral fusion: 22600-22612
- Exploration, wounds, right and left upper extremities: 20103, 50, 51, LT, RT
- Segmental instrumentation, extension: 22840
- Neurology and neuromuscular procedures, medicine, functional cortical and subcortical mapping, deep brain stimulator implantation: 61863, 95961
- Respiratory, surgery, bronchoscopy, dye marker: 31626