The American Medical Association (AMA) released the October 2025 CPT® Assistant. Anyone who codes hydration should check out this issue’s guidance on the most confusing aspects of these services.
To find all the articles from Volume 35, Issue 10, subscribers to Code Connect — Codify by AAPC by AAPC’s CPT® Assistant search add-on — can check for these topics and codes when they log in:
- Breast augmentation, with implant: 19325
- Fecal microbiota transplant: 44799, 45399, 0780T
- Hydration, intravenous infusion: 96360, 96361
- Integrated neurostimulator systems: 0908T-0912T
The October issue also includes a Questions and Answers section covering these topics and codes:
- Cardiovascular
- ECG, medical assistant, physician interpretation and report: 93000
- Digestive system
- Chemodenervation anal sphincter, curettage or cautery anal fissure: 46505, 46940
- Excise tumors, lienorenal ligament, omentum, intra-abdominal: 49186-49190
- Evaluation and management
- Copying old information, laboratory test
- Eye and ocular adnexa
- Foreign body, cornea, needle and forceps: 65220
- Hemic and lymphatic systems
- Bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy: 38571, 38770, 50
- Integumentary system
- Suborbicularis oculi fat lift: 14060
- Nervous system
- Fascia iliaca compartment block, pericapsular nerve group block: 64473, 50
- Respiratory system
- Tracheal laceration repair, cervical approach: 31800
- Urinary system
- Complete open cystectomy, bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy, prostate removal: 51570-51596