AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 8 (August)

THEN and NOW: Implanted Infusion Pump Refill/Reprogramming (August 2012)

August 2012 pages 10-12 Implanted Infusion Pump Refill/Reprogramming The July 2006 issue (p 1) of the CPT Assistant provided an overview of the coding for services related to the refilling, maintenance, analysis, and/or reprogramming of an implantable intrathecal, intraventricular, and epidural drug delivery system including: the use of codes from both the Surgery (62367, 62368) and Medicine (95990, 95991) sections of the CPT code set to reflect the overall service of electronic analysis with or without reprogramming and refilling and maintenance; the use of the code descriptor structure to distinguish services requiring the skill of a physician or other...

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