AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 9 (September)

Diagnostic Radiology for Spinal Conditions and Scoliosis Evaluation (September 2016)

September 2016 page 4 Diagnostic Radiology for Spinal Conditions and Scoliosis Evaluation Recent changes in diagnostic radiology procedures have made it necessary to revise an existing code, create several new codes, and delete obsolete codes in the Radiology/Diagnostic Radiology (Diagnostic Imaging) subsection of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2016 code set. These changes were made to reflect current clinical practice, help simplify reporting procedures, and align this area of diagnostic radiology to other imaging code families that also have been updated recently. This article discusses the revision of code 72080, the deletion of codes 72069 and 72090, and...

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