CPT Knowledgebase - Jun 4, 2026

A 65-year-old female patient presents to an independent imaging center for an annual osteoporosis screening. The imaging center's dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanner is equipped with the specialized TBS software. The technician performs a bone mineral density (BMD) study of the axial skeleton (reported separately). Utilizing the existing imaging data, the DXA device's built-in software performs the Trabecular Bone Score (TBS) calculation to evaluate bone microarchitecture. Following the calculation, the radiologist reviews the resulting data, interprets the structural condition of the bone, and writes a separate formal report on the patient's osteoporotic fracture-risk. What are the appropriate codes to be reported by the imaging center if it needed to separately report the technical calculation and professional interpretation components of the TBS study?

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