AMA CPT® Assistant - 2002 Issue 1 (January)

Surgery/Digestive System (January 2002)

January 2002 page 12-end Coding Consultation Digestive System, Surgery, 45378 (Q&A) Question Does the use of an "(s)" in CPT inherently identify a multiple performance of the procedure indicated? AMA Comment Unless otherwise indicated (in parenthetic notes, guidelines, or in the actual descriptor language of the code itself), the "(s)" does identify inclusion of any/all services indicated in the code language. Codes that include this notation usually involve performance of a service that does not change in overall effort when the service is performed for additional items identified by the "(s)." For example, code 45378, Colonoscopy, flexible...

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