AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 11 (November)

Intracranial Endovascular Interventions (November 2015)

November 2015 pages 3-6 Intracranial Endovascular Interventions For the 2016 CPT® code set, three new codes (61645, 61650, 61651) have been added to the Nervous System/Endovascular Therapy subsection to describe cerebral endovascular therapeutic interventions in any intracranial artery. In concert with the addition of these new codes for intracranial interventions, codes 37184, 37185, 37186, and 37211 were revised to exclude intracranial interventions. In addition, within the Radiology/Transcatheter Procedures subsection, code 75896 will be deleted, and two parenthetical notes will be added following code 75898 to direct users to the appropriate codes for reporting thrombolysis and non-thrombolysis infusion management other...

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