The American Medical Association (AMA) released the September 2026 CPT® Assistant. The issue helps sleep medicine coders prepare for a major 2027 restructuring of unattended sleep testing codes, including separate reporting for the technical and professional components based on study complexity. The issue is now available to subscribers of Code Connect, which is Codify by AAPC’s CPT® Assistant search add-on, and to subscribers of the CPT® Advanced Coding Pack.
To find all the articles from Volume 36, Issue 9, subscribers can check for these topics and codes when they log in:
- Aortic wall stabilization drug delivery: 0994T, 0995T
- Neurovascular optical coherence tomography: 0984T-0987T
- Scleral reinforcement, ab-interno cyclodialysis with allograft placement: 1084T
- Unattended sleep testing, 2027: 95843, 95844, 95846-95849
The September issue also includes a Questions and Answers section covering these topics and codes:
- Evaluation and management
- Critical care services, patient stabilizing later the same day
- Nurse as an independent historian or appropriate source
- Female genital system
- Intrauterine device insertion following removal for procedural access: 58300, 58301
- Gastroenterology
- Upper gastrointestinal blood-detection sensor capsule: 0977T
- Musculoskeletal system
- Adipofascial flap with ulnar nerve transposition: 14020, 15736, 64718
- Otorhinolaryngologic services
- Bone-conduction hearing device fitting: 92622, 92623, 92634
- Radiology
- Endoscopic ultrasound elastography: 43237, 43238, 76981-76983
- Intraoperative ultrasound guidance with partial mastectomy: 19301, 76998
- Surgical pathology
- Separately submitted thyroid specimens: 88307
- Urinary system
- Simple versus complicated cystostomy tube changes: 51705, 51710