AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 3 (March)

Coding for Endovascular Procedures for Dialysis Access (March 2017)

March 2017 pages 3-5 Coding for Endovascular Procedures for Dialysis Access Nine new codes for endovascular procedures for dialysis access (36901-36909) were added, and four codes (36147, 36148, 36870, 75791) were deleted in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2017 code set. These changes were made in response to a request from the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) Relativity Assessment Workgroup (RAW) to review the existing codes based on a screen identifying codes frequently reported together as well as a screen identifying rapidly growing services. The new codes bundle services that are commonly performed together. The CPT® 2017...

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