CPT checkup: Review the major changes for 2009
APCs Weekly Monitor, January 23, 2009
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CPT coders face a lengthy list of changes for 2009. There are 291 additions, 375 revisions, and 95 deletions, according to the American Academy of Professional Coders. The E/M and medicine sections have changed the most.
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(This is part two of a two-part series that reviews changes for the male reproductive system, neurology, radiology, pathology, and medicine. See part one in the January 2 APCs Weekly Monitor.)
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