Cardiology Coding Alert

Errata: 99358-99359 Become Clearer With ‘Qualified Health Care Professional’ Definition

The impact on 90460-90461 has some practices unhappy.

At the request of many physicians, CPT® 2012 now defines the term "other qualified healthcare professional."

Although this definition didn't make it into the 2012 manual, the AMA lists it as part of the "CPT® 2012 Errata" on its website (www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/cpt/cpt-corrections.pdf). The definition is as follows:

"A 'physician or other qualified health care professional' is an individual who is qualified by education, training, licensure/regulation (when applicable), and facility privileging (when applicable) who performs a professional service within his/her scope of practice and independently reports that professional service.

"These professionals are distinct from 'clinical [...]

- Published on 2012-01-10

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