AMA CPT® Assistant - 1999 Issue 1 (January)

Pulmonary Function Testing (January 1999)

January 1999 pages 8-9 Coding Communication Pulmonary Function Testing See Correction / Clarification There have been a number of additions and revisions to the pulmonary section of CPT 1999. Three new codes have been created to report spirometric measurements taken by the patient at home (94014, 94015, and 94016). Two of the existing codes describing bronchospasm evaluation have been editorially revised (94060 and 94070). The single code describing simple or complex pulmonary stress testing (94620) has been editorially revised and is now to be used only for simple pulmonary stress testing with the new code (94621) for reporting complex...

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