AMA CPT® Assistant - 1998 Issue 7 (July)

Medicine, 98925 (Q&A) (July 1998)

July 1998 page 11 Coding Consultation Medicine, 98925 (Q&A) Question When reporting OMT, is it appropriate to report these codes based on the number of lesions treated? For example, if three lesions are treated in the neck region, how would this be reported? AMA Comment The codes for OMT are intended to be reported based on the number of body regions involved. These codes are not reported based on the number of lesions in a particular body region. Therefore, if three lesions are treated in the neck region, this would be reported as code 98925, which indicates one...

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