AMA CPT® Assistant - 2002 Issue 8 (August)

Medicine (August 2002)

August 2002 page 11-end Coding Consultation:Medicine Medicine, 97010 (Q&A) Question We have been told that we can report multiple units of code 97010 when we use both cold and hot packs for therapy during a single treatment session. This is inconsistent with previous information we have received. Has the use of code 97010 changed? AMA Comment From a CPT coding perspective, codes 97010-97028 (Application of a modality to one or more areas) are intended to be reported only one time per modality, per treatment session. The length of a given treatment session is not stated in the CPT book...

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