The first quarter AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS shines a spotlight on CPT® updates for nervous system neurostimulators. You’ll also get a listing of other recent code updates.
To learn more about the topics in Volume 24, Number 1, subscribers to Codify by AAPC’s HCPCS Coding Clinic search tool can look up these terms or select the year and quarter for the issue:
- Chaplaincy services: Q9001-Q9003
- Inpatient Only List, Medicare, 2024: 22836-22838, 61889, 76984, 76987-76989, 0646T, 0790T
- Nervous system neurostimulators: 61889, 61891, 61892, 63685, 63688, 64590, 64595-64598, 0784T-0789T
- New, deleted, revised HCPCS Level II codes, January 2024
- New, revised CPT® Category III codes, July 2024: 0714T, 0867T-0900T
- New, revised CPT® Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) codes, January 2024: 0351U, 0356U, 0420U-0438U
The Ask the Editor section of this issue discusses coding for a variety of procedures. Subscribers to our HCPCS Coding Clinic tool can find additional information by searching for these terms:
- Attempted stenting, coronary artery: C9600-C9608, 92928, 92943, 74, RI
- Application, dermal substitute: 17999, C9358, C9360
- Hemiarthroplasty, carpometacarpal: 25447, 25999, C1776
- Hemorrhoidectomy, internal: 46999, 52
- Insertion, cranial bone fiducials: 20660, 21499
- Microlaryngoscopy, fat injection: 15773, 17999, 31571, 52
- Retrieval, implantation, banked rib cartilage grafts: 21230
- Steroid injection, Dupuytren’s contracture: 20527, 26989, J3301, LT
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