Wiki Plz Help ?I Don't Find Any Code in Cat Book.

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The patient is admitted to the hospital for an EEG to determine the focus of her cerebral seizures. The continous EEG recording is for 12 hours and no video is obtained. The physician reviews the recorded events, analyzes spike and seizure detection, interprets the data and writes the report. What CPT® code is reported?

A. 95705

B. 95712

C. 95718

D. 95717

 

[Munzueta]

Definitely 95712 and 95718 are not correct as they are with video and they stated no video is obtained. Since the physician is reviewing and interpreting the best code would be your professional service code being 95717.