AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 2 (February)

Coding Brief: Polysomnography Changes for 2013 (February 2013)

February 2013 pages 14-15 Coding Brief: Polysomnography Changes for 2013 Sleep medicine services include procedures that evaluate adult and pediatric patients for a variety of sleep disorders. Sleep medicine testing services are diagnostic procedures, using in-laboratory and portable technologies to assess physiologic data and therapy. The Sleep Medicine Testing subsection in the CPT 2013 code set has been revised. Specifically, two new codes for pediatric testing were added and three of the existing subsection codes were modified to specify age groups. This coding brief will discuss the revisions of the Sleep Medicine Testing subsection and describe the rationale for...

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