AMA CPT® Assistant - 2011 Issue 11 (November)

Sleep Testing Guidelines Revisions (November 2011)

November 2011 pages 3-4 Sleep Testing Guidelines Revisions Majority of the current Sleep Testing codes (95805-95811) were originally added to the CPT codebook between 1991 and 1998. CPT code 95803 (actigraphy testing) was added in 2009, and codes 95800 and 95801 (unattended sleep testing) were added in 2011. The guidelines in this section have been revised in CPT 2012 to reflect the changes in sleep medicine testing since they were originally published. This article will discuss these changes, which include the definition of terms in the sleep testing codes, the creation of new parenthetical remarks indicating the specific tests...

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