New year brings more than 500 CPT changes
Briefings on APCs, January 1, 2009
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2009 update focuses on E/M, medicine
by Christina Benjamin, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P
CPT coders face a lengthy list of changes for 2009. According to the American Academy of Professional Coders, there are 291 additions, 375 revisions, and 95 deletions. The E/M and medicine sections have changed the most.
Among the 2009 changes is a new symbol for recycled or reinstated codes: “o,” and the deletion of modifier -21 (prolonged E/M services). Critical care codes underwent major changes. AMA revised the guidelines for their use and relocated all the current critical and intensive care codes (99460–99480) to the end of the E/M section.
The new manual includes a much-needed range of new laparoscopic hernia repair codes and lesser changes to the anesthesia, integumentary and musculoskeletal sections.
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