AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 10 (October)

Coding Brief: Reporting Percutaneous Implantation of Neurostimulator Electrode Arrays Codes (October 2018)

October 2018 page 8 Coding Brief: Reporting Percutaneous Implantation of Neurostimulator Electrode Arrays Codes Several changes have been made in the Surgery/Neurostimulators (Peripheral Nerve) subsection of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) for the 2018 and 2019 code set. This subsection has new guidelines, deleted codes, and new instructional parenthetical notes directing users to the appropriate codes to report percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PENS) or percutaneous neuromodulation therapy (PNT), as well as transcutaneous nerve stimulation (TENS) procedures. This article provides an overview of these changes. Neurostimulators (Peripheral Nerve) CPT code 64550, Application of surface (transcutaneous) neurostimulator (eg, TENS unit)...

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