AMA CPT® Assistant - 2000 Issue 2 (February)

Radioation Oncology (February 2000)

February 2000 pages 7-8 Coding Commentary Radioation Oncology In the course of maintaining the CPT codes, it is sometimes apparent that current descriptors have become obsolete or inadequately describe current procedures. With dramatic changes in the practice of radiation oncology, the CPT 1999 descriptors of the treatment management codes 77419, 77420, 77425, and 77430 did not reflect current practices. These descriptors were remnants of an evolutionary process that started nearly thirty years ago. At that time, the term "treatment management" was used to describe both the supervision of technical factors of treatment (eg, number and type of treatment devices...

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