AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 8 (August)
Physical Therapy Evaluations (August 2017)
August 2017 pages 3-5 Physical Therapy Evaluations The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2017 code set includes significant revisions to the coding and descriptions for physical therapy evaluations and re-evaluation services in the Medicine/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) subsection. New codes (97161-97163) that describe three levels of physical therapy evaluation and one additional code (97164) for re-evaluation were created. In addition, extensive guidelines were added. The codes that were previously used to report these services were deleted and replaced with these new codes. Previously published articles addressed occupational therapy and athletic training evaluation and re-evaluation codes, however, this...
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