AMA CPT® Assistant - 2020 Issue 7 (July)

Cognitive Function Intervention (July 2020)

July 2020 page 10 Cognitive Function Intervention For the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2020 code set, under the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation section, changes were made in the Therapeutic Procedures subsection to describe cognitive function therapy. Code 97127, Therapeutic interventions that focus on cognitive function (eg, attention, memory, reasoning, executive function, problem solving, and/or pragmatic functioning) and compensatory strategies to manage the performance of an activity (eg, managing time or schedules, initiating, organizing, and sequencing tasks), direct (one-on-one) patient contact, was deleted and replaced with two new codes (97129, 97130). In addition, parenthetical notes were added to guide...

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