Now Available: CPT® Assistant (April 2026) is a must-read for lower extremity revascularization


The American Medical Association (AMA) released the April 2026 CPT® Assistant. The articles are now available to subscribers of Code Connect, which is the Codify by AAPC CPT® Assistant search add-on, and to subscribers of the CPT® Advanced Coding Pack. If you code for lower extremity revascularization, don’t miss this issu'es impressive deep dive, complete with clinical examples and procedure descriptions.

To find all the articles from Volume 36, Issue 4, subscribers can check for these topics and codes when they log in:

  • Baroflex activation therapy modulation services, BAT: 64654-64659, 93145-93146
  • Coronary therapeutic services, percutaneous: 92930, 92945
  • Lower extremity revascularization: 37254-37299
  • Transurethral robotic-assisted waterjet resection, prostate: 52597

The April issue also includes a Questions and Answers section covering these topics and codes:

  • Auditory system
    • External auditory canal reconstruction: 69310
    • Removal, cochlear implant: 69949
  • Digestive system
    • Liver resection, partial resections: 47120
    • Preauricular sinus cyst, excising, branchial remnants: 42810, 42815
  • Evaluation and management
    • Inpatient, culture order, review, interpretation
  • Eye and ocular adnexa
    • Eyelid repair, skin graft: 15260, 67961
  • Integumentary system
    • Application, skin substitute without anchoring: 15271-15278
  • Musculoskeletal system
    • Debridement, biceps tendon, superior labrum, tenodesis, discrete structures
    • Debridement, labrum, capsule, discrete structures, shoulder