AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 11 (November)

Medicine: Chiropractic Manipulative Treatment (Q&A) (November 2018)

November 2018 page 11 Medicine: Chiropractic Manipulative Treatment Question: A chiropractic manipulative treatment (CMT) is performed with a review of prior radiologic imaging on the same date an evaluation and management (E/M) visit is also performed. How should this be reported? Answer: CMT procedures include the review of prior radiologic imaging, test interpretation, and test results and pre-manipulation patient assessment, and are considered inclusive components of the CMT codes (98940-98943). Additional E/M services are performed and reported separately with modifier 25, if and only if the patient's condition requires a significant separately identifiable E/M service above and beyond the...

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