tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 38

More Code Changes: CPT 2006 also...

• replaces 99298-99299 for intensive care (low birth rate) with new codes for "continuing intensive care services," 99298-99300.• deletes abortion anesthesia code 01964 and replaces it with two new anesthesia codes for incomplete or missed abortions (01965) and induced abortions (01966).• deletes two codes for dressings and/or debridement of burns under anesthesia (16010-16015) and revises 16020-16030 to delete the phrase "without anesthesia."• deletes closed laryngeal fracture care codes 31585-31586.• deletes lung resection codes 32520-32525 and replaces them with the more specific codes 32503-32504, for resection of an apical lung tumor (also known as a...

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