AMA CPT® Assistant - 2002 Issue 5 (May)

Synonymous Terms (May 2002)

May 2002 pages 7-16 Coding Communication Synonymous Terms The American Medical Association's (AMA) CPT-5 Project produced many of recommendations that are being phased into the CPT book through the standard CPT Editorial Process. (Previous CPT Assistant articles on the CPT-5 project can be found in the April 1999, February 2000, and June 2000 issues.) Each recommendation is an effort to enhance the CPT code set and comply with HIPAA's administrative simplification. One of the recommendations was named Synonymous Terms. So what is synonymy? Synonymy is a list or collection of terms/words that have the same, or nearly the...

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