AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 10 (October)

Medicine: Neurostimulators, Analysis-Programming (Q&A) (October 2012)

October 2012 page 15c Medicine: Neurostimulators, Analysis-Programming Question: When performing neurostimulator analysis and programming, what is required for one of the features to be considered "changed"? Is it sufficient to review a feature and to consider adjustments without actually making any adjustments? Answer: The CPT guidelines stipulate that one must actually make a change to more than three parameters—not merely consider a change—to count toward the reporting of a complex code. For CPT 2012, the guidelines related to the criteria used to report simple or complex reprogramming of neurostimulators were revised. More than three parameters (rate, pulse amplitude, pulse...

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