AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 12 (December)

Reporting Category III Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Therapy for Integumentary Wound Healing (December 2018)

December 2018 page 5 Reporting Category III Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Therapy for Integumentary Wound Healing Two new Category III codes (0512T, 0513T) have been added to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2019 code set to report high-energy extracorporeal shock-wave therapy for integumentary wound healing. In addition, parenthetical notes have been added to provide instruction regarding the appropriate codes to use to report applicable services related to shock-wave therapy. This article provides an overview of these changes. Category III Codes 0101TExtracorporeal shock wave involving musculo-skeletal system, not otherwise specified, high energy (For extracorporeal shock wave therapy involving integumentary system not...

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