AMA CPT® Assistant - 1999 Issue 3 (March)

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: CPT Code 97140 (March 1999)

March 1999 pages 1-2 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: CPT Code 97140 Clinical Vignette for 97140 One of the major changes made to the 1999 physical medicine and rehabilitation section of CPT was the deletion of several existing CPT codes and the addition of one new code. For CPT 1999, codes 97122, 97250, 97260, 97261 and 97265 were deleted and replaced with 97140, Manual therapy techniques (eg, mobilization/manipulation, manual lymphatic drainage, manual traction), one or more regions, each 15 minutes. With the addition of new code 97140, that describes both mobilization and manipulation techniques, physical therapists, as well as other...

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