AMA CPT® Assistant - 2022 Issue 11 (November)

Nonvascular Extremity Ultrasound (November 2022)

November 2022 pages 8-11 Nonvascular Extremity Ultrasound For the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2023 code set, code 76883 has been established to report a comprehensive diagnostic ultrasound of nerves and the accompanying structures throughout their entire course in one extremity. In addition, the code descriptor for code 76882 has been revised to add the term “focal evaluation” to clarify the distinction between a limited ultrasound of nerves as described by code 76882 and an ultrasound of a nerve’s entire anatomic course as described in new code 76883. An exclusionary parenthetical note has been added, restricting the use of...

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