AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 11 (November)

New Codes for Health-Risk Assessments (96160, 96161) (November 2016)

November 2016 page 5 New Codes for Health-Risk Assessments (96160, 96161) For CPT® 2017, two new codes (96160 and 96161) have been created to replace code 99420. Code 99420 was previously used to report the administration and interpretation of a health-risk assessment. However, assessment of the patient's caregiver for the benefit of the patient is also an important service, which was not captured in the previous code. To address this, beginning in 2017, new codes 96160 and 96161 will distinguish between the focus of the assessment: the patient and the caregiver. In addition, the new codes have been moved...

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