AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 2 (February)

New Occupational Therapy Evaluation Codes (February 2017)

February 2017 pages 3-8 New Occupational Therapy Evaluation Codes The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2017 code set includes significant revisions to the coding and descriptions for occupational therapy evaluation and re-evaluation services in the Medicine/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation subsection. Three new codes (97165-97167) were created to describe three levels of occupational therapy evaluation and one code (97168) for re-evaluation. The codes (97003, 97004) that were previously used to report these services were deleted and replaced with these new codes (97165-97168) and extensive guidelines were added. This article provides an overview of these changes. New Codes #97165Occupational therapy evaluation...

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