AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 12 (December)
Medicine: Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures (Q&A) (December 2015)
December 2015 page a Medicine: Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures Question: What is meant by the phrase "no clinical findings," when there is nothing on the routine electroencephalogram (EEG) report? Answer: The phrase "no clinical findings" on routine EEG reports (eg, code 95816, Electroencephalogram [EEG]; including recording awake and drowsy, and code 95819, Electroencephalogram [EEG]; including recording awake and asleep) means that the question at hand may remain unresolved. If the physician is trying to differentiate among the causes of lapses of consciousness or another such neurological condition and the routine EEG does not provide the "answer(s)" to the...
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