AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 7 (July)

Coding Update: Cervical Spine X Ray (July 2013)

July 2013 page 10 Coding Update: Cervical Spine X Ray For 2013, revisions were made to the codes in the Diagnostic Radiology (Diagnostic Imaging): Spine and Pelvis section of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set. During this revision, there was an inadvertent overlap of code 72020, Radiologic examination, spine, single view, specify level, and code 72040, Radiologic examination, spine, cervical; 3 views or less, which resulted in two methods for reporting a single radiologic view of the spine. To ensure that the terminology in the code descriptors correctly represents the intent of the codes, further revision was...

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