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AMA CPT® Assistant - 2020 Issue 9 (September)
Bone Strength and Fracture Risk Assessment (September 2020)
September 2020 pages 11-12
Bone Strength and Fracture Risk Assessment
As of July 1, 2020, the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set includes five new Category III codes to describe bone strength and fracture risk assessment using finite element analysis. This article provides a brief overview of these new codes.
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0554TBone strength and fracture risk using finite element analysis of functional data and bone-mineral density utilizing data from a computed tomography scan; retrieval and transmission of the scan data, assessment of bone strength and fracture risk and bone-mineral density, interpretation and report
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