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CPT® 2012 Update: Revisions Broaden Your Prolonged Services Reporting Scope



CPT®2012 opens opportunity of using code by every specialty. When your gastroenterologist sees a patient for a condition such as protracted vomiting (ICD-9 code 787.03) requiring in-office medication and observation or obstipation/ impaction (564.09, 560.3) requiring in-office enema or disimpaction, you may be able to report prolonged services codes +99354 and +99355 to capture the time and work. The good [...]

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