AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 12 (December)

Video EEG (December 2004)

December 2004 page 18 Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Video EEG, 95951 (Q&A) Question How should our practice report a video EEG monitoring when recording time is less than 24 hours? AMA Comment Code 95951, Monitoring for localization of cerebral seizure focus by cable or radio, 16 or more channel telemetry, combined electroencephalographic (EEG) and video recording and interpretation (eg, for presurgical localization), each 24 hours, is time based. For this code, if less than 12 hours of recording time is provided, then the reduced services modifier 52 should be appended to identify the reduction of service. If the...

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