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2019 CPT Updates
2019 CPT Coding Updates
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| How many total changes were made to CPT 2019? | 335 (new, deleted and revised codes) |
| Where are annual coding updates published? | Appendix B of the CPT coding manual |
| Where can you purchase the CPT coding manual? | The American Medical Association website? |
| CPT 2019 updates affected which areas of the manual? | Introduction, Evaluation and Management Section, Anesthesia Section, Surgery Section, Radiology Section, Pathology and Laboratory Section, Medicine Section, Category III, and Appendices |
| CPT instructional notes in the article are delineated as new codes are ____________ and deleted notes are _______________. | underlined; crossed out |
| What does the CPT 2019 new code symbol for proprietary laboratory analyses test stand for? | Duplicate codes |
| PLA stands for what? | Proprietary Labortary Analyses |
| Duplicate PLA codes are reported for some propriety clinical laboratory analysis (provided by a single laboratory or licensed or marketed to multiple providing laboratories that have been cleared or approved by)? | The Food and Drug Administration |
| Where are PLA codes included? | Appendix O (where the proprietary name of the procedure is located) |
| True of False: The descriptor language of some PLA codes are identical, and codes can differentiated by other factors aside from proprietary names listed in Appendix O. | False: PLA codes can only be differentiated by properietary names listed in Appendix O. |
| PLA codes are denoted by what? | PLA symbol |
| Which sections of the Evaluation and Management section were subject to changes? | Critical Care Services, Home Services, Prolonged Services, Interprofessional Telephone/Internet/Electronic Health Record Consultations, Digital Stored Data Services/Remote Physiologic Monitoring, Remote Physiologic Monitoring Treatment Management Services |
| Which sections of the Evaluation and Management section contained changes to instructional notes only? | Inpatient Neonatal Intensive Care Services and Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Services, Care Management Services, Psychiatric Collaborative Care Management, and Transitional Care Management Services |
| Instructional notes should be ____________ ____________ prior to assigning codes from the following subsections (and headings). | Carefully reviewed |
| Which Evaluation and Management headings consist of instructional notes changes? | Pediatric Critical Care Patient Transport and Chronic Care Management Services |
| True or False: Two notes were revised in the Critical Care Services subsection. | True |
| The first revised note in the Critical Care Services subsection __________ code 99090, and the second revised note deleted the __________ ____________. | deleted; last statement |
| The Home Services subsection contains a revised note that defines what is meant by? | "Home" |
| The Prolonged Service Without Direct Patient Contract heading in the Prolonged Services subsection contains one revised note below which code? | 99359 |
| The interprofessional Telephone/Internet/Electronic Health Record Consultations subsection was revised to add what to its name? | Electronic Health Record |
| Subsection notes were revised to add codes, add "electronic helath record" as a type of ____________, and ___________ certain statements and terms that are no longer relevant. | consultation; delete |
| Which codes were revised to add "electronic health record" as a type of assessment and management service? | 99446, 99447, 99448, 99449 |
| Codes added to clasify services that include only a written report | 99451, 99452 |
| What was aded to report remote physiologic monitoring services (ex: weight, blood pressure, pulse oximetry) during a 30-day period? | The New Digital Stored Data Services/Remote Physiologic Monitoring subsection |
| Codes 99453 and 99454 were add for what reason? | To report the set-up/patient education of the device and supply of the device for daily recording or programmed aler transmissions, respectively. |
| True or False: Codes 99453 and 99454 are to be reported when monitoring is less than 16 days. | False |
| Code relocated from the Miscellaneous Services heading of the Special Services, Procedures and Reports subsection within the Medicine section to the new Digitally Stored Data Services/Remote Physiologic Monitoring subsection | 99091 |
| Organization which must define a remote physiologic monitoring device as a medical device? | Federal Drug Administration |
| Subsection added to classify the provision of service when the clinical staff/physician/other qualified healthcare professional uses results to manage a patient's treatment plan. | Remote Physiological Monitoring Treatment Management Services |
| True or False: Just one code was added to the Remote Physiologic Monitoring Treatment Management Services subsection. | True! Evaluation and Management Code 99457 was added |
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