Current Procedural Terminology, perhaps better known by its abbreviation “CPT,” is the coding system the medical field uses to document healthcare services during a procedure. This system is extensive ...
Value-focused patient care is transforming medical practice. As rising healthcare costs in the United States challenge the widely used fee-for-service architecture, innovative, patient-centered care ...
An easy-to-code carpal tunnel release is often coded incorrectly using CPT 64721 (open approach), when the procedure was actually done endoscopically. The endoscopic approach is coded using CPT 29848.
Healthcare in the United States has dominated the social, political, and financial arena in the past decade. Although we have assumed that because healthcare in the United States is very expensive, it ...
When CMS quietly updated the Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) for CPT 64772 from two to six units for 2026, it didn’t make headlines, but it should have. This change isn’t simply a coding adjustment. It ...
The newly released CY 2024 Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule holds exciting news for therapists and caregivers. We have three new codes to be used for reporting the total duration of ...
For years, debate around endoscopic spine surgery centered on whether the technique was ready for broad adoption. Questions about safety, durability, and outcomes dominated discussions among surgeons, ...
The authors probed Medicare Part B data to explore outpatient clinical procedures performed by physician associates and nurse practitioners and report the trends from 2014 through 2021. Objective: We ...
PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation announced that its Aquablation therapy has been assigned a Category I Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code, which will take effect on January 1, 2026. This marks a ...
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