Monday 27 October 2014

Medicine CPT code List

Immunization Injections 90700 - 90749
Therapeutic/ Diagnostic Infusions ( excludes chemo) 90780 - 90781
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Injections 90782 - 90799
Psychiatry 90801 - 90899
Biofeedback 90901 - 90911
Dialysis 90918 - 90999
Gastroenterology 91000 - 91299
Ophthalmology 92002 - 92499
Special Otorhinolaryngologic Services 92502 - 92599
Cardiovascular 92950 - 93799
Non-Invasive Vascular Diagnostic Studies 93875 - 93990
Pulmonary 94010 - 94799
Allergy and Clinical Immunology 95004 - 95199
Endocrinology 95250
Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures 95805 - 96004
Central Nervous System Assessments/Tests 96100 - 96117
Health and Behavior Assessment/Intervention 96150 - 96155
Chemotherapy Administration 96400 - 96549
Photodynamic Therapy 96567 - 96571
Special Dermatological Procedures 96900 - 96999
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 97001 - 97799
Medical Nutrition Therapy 97802 - 97804
Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment 98925 - 98929
Chiropractic Manipulative Treatment 98940 - 98943
Special Services Procedures and Reports 99000 - 99091
Qualifying Circumstances for Anesthesia 99100 - 99140
Sedation With or Without Analgesia 99141 - 99142
Other Services and procedures 99170 - 99199
Home Health Procedures/Services 99500 - 99539
Home Infusion Procedures 99551 - 99569.

Medical billing basic - What is CPT

What is CPT? 

CPT was developed by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1966. The AMA revises and publishes CPT each year to keep pace with changes in medical practice. They delete obsolete procedures, modify existing procedures, and add newly developed procedures. Your physicians’ office should make it a policy to order the current book from the AMA each year. Begin using the new CPT codes on January 1. 

•  listing of descriptive terms and five-digit, numeric codes for reporting medical services and procedures performed by physicians. 

• provides a uniform language to accurately designate medical, surgical and diagnostic services. 

•     serves as an effective means of reliable nationwide communication between physicians, patients and third-party payers. 

Each time you submit a claim, identify the service provided by using one of these five-digit CPT codes, plus a two-digit modifier when appropriate. 

HCPCS Levels of Codes

HCPCS is the acronym for the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System. This system is a uniform method for health care providers and medical suppliers to report professional services, procedures, and supplies. 

There are three levels of codes within the HCPCS system: 

Level I. Level I is the largest component, made up of five-digit numeric CPT codes and two-digit modifiers. Both CPT codes and modifiers have descriptive terms for reporting services performed by health care providers. The first edition of CPT was published by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1966 and it continues to release updates each year. 

Example: 10060 * Incision and drainage of abscess 

Level II. These national codes, created by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), were developed to cover services not specifically reported in CPT. Level II HCPCS codes consist of one alpha character (A through V), followed by four numbers. Level II HCPCS modifiers are two-digit codes which can be used with any level of codes. Level II codes are grouped by the type of service or supply they represent and are updated annually by CMS with input from private insurance companies. 

Example: A4580 Cast supplies 

Level III. Level III codes are used to report services and supplies that may be covered but not listed in the other two levels of HCPCS. These codes begin with a letter (W - Z) followed by four numeric digits. Wellmark has eliminated all Level III codes in accordance with HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) requirements. 

Remember: 

• CPT* provides a uniform language to accurately designate medical, surgical and diagnos-tic services. 

• CPT and HCPCS are updated annually to reflect medical practice changes. 

•  The AMA is responsible for revising CPT and CMS updates HCPCS Level II codes. 

• CPT is used to report the medical services and procedures performed by physicians to insurance carriers. 

• To assure that correct CPT codes are used for all procedures, a new CPT book should be purchased annually. 

• Choose a procedure code that accurately identifies the service performed. Do not choose an approximate code (use an unlisted code if none exists to accurately describe it). 

what is CPT Coding System

CPT Coding System

Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), Fourth Edition, is a listing of descriptive terms and identifying codes for reporting medical services and procedures. The purpose of CPT is to provide a uniform language that accurately describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, and thereby serves as an effective means for reliable nationwide communication among physicians, patients, and
third parties

The American Medical Association (AMA) first developed and published CPT in 1966. The first edition helped encourage the use of standard terms and descriptors to document procedures in the medical record; helped communicate accurate information on procedures and services to agencies concerned with insurance claims; provided the basis for a computer-oriented system to evaluate operative procedures; and contributed basic information for actuarial and statistical purposes.The first edition of the CPT code book contained primarily surgical procedures, with limited sections on medicine, radiology, and laboratory procedures.

The second edition was published in 1970, and presented an expanded work of terms and codes to designate diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in surgery , medicine, and the specialties. At that time, five-digit coding was introduced, replacing the former four-digit classification. Another significant change was a listing of procedures relating to internal medicine.

In the mid- to late 1970s, the third and fourth editions of the CPT code were introduced. The fourth edition, published in 1977, represented significant updates in medical technology, and a procedure of periodic updating was introduced to keep pace with the rapidly changing medical environment. In 1983, the CPT code was adopted as part of the HealthCare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) (Formerly called as HealthCare Financing Administration's (HCFA) Common Procedure Coding System) . 

With this adoption, HCFA mandated the use of HCPCS to report services for Part B of the Medicare Program. In October 1986, CMS also required State Medicaid agencies to use HCPCS in the Medicaid Management Information System. In July 1987, as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, HCFA mandated the use of CPT for reporting outpatient hospital surgical procedures. Today, in addition to use in federal programs (Medicare and Medicaid), CPT is used extensively throughout the United States as the preferred work of coding and describing health care services 

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