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AMA CPT® Assistant - 1999 Issue 11 (November)
CPT 2000 Code and Guideline Changes: A Comprehensive Review (November 1999)
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CPT 2000 Code and Guideline Changes: A Comprehensive Review
It's that time of the year once again: when the season changes, baseball ends, football begins, and of course, the new CPT codes and guidelines are published. As we have done in the past, we present to you a complete review of the changes with a brief rationale for each change.
As they appear in the CPT book, we identify new codes with a , revised codes with a , add-on codes with a symbol, and modifier -51 exempt codes with a symbol. Revised text appears as indented...
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