AMA CPT® Assistant - 2011 Issue 1 (January)

Medicine: Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures (Q & A) (January 2011)

January 2011 page 9c Medicine: Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures Question: Is it appropriate to report CPT code 95920, if less than an hour of intraoperative neurophysiology testing is performed? Answer: It would be appropriate to report CPT add-on code +95920, Intraoperative neurophysiology testing, per hour (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure), if the testing duration occurs for 31 minutes or more. The amount of time that intraoperative neurophysiology testing was performed should be documented in the patient’s medical record. If 30 minutes or less of testing is performed, code 95920 is not reported. Medicine: Neurology...

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