Question

The medicine section of CPT is frequently called the trash can for the CPT manual, because codes from all sections seem to end up there.  

Identify codes in the Medicine section of the CPT manual that could be located in the Evaluation and Management, Surgery, Radiology, or Pathology sections and describe them.

Answer 1

CPT - C​​​​​​​​​​urrent Procedural terminology.

This expansive and important code set was published and maintained by American Medical Association, and is one of the important code set for the medical coders to be familiar with.

Codes in the mediacl section of CPT :

​​​​​​Evaluation & Management : 99201-99499

Anaesthesia : 00100-01999: 99100-99140

Surgery: 10021- 69991

Radiology: 70010- 79999

Pathology & laboratory : 80047-89398

Medicine : 90281-99199: 99500-99607.

These CPT codes are used to describe test, surgeries, evaluations and any other medical procedure performed by an Health care professional to the patient.

CPT codes are used to track important Health data and measure performance and efficacy.

Each CPT code is 5 character long, and may be numeric or alphanumeric depending on the which category the code in.

CPT codes are divided into three categories.

Category 1 : Category 1 is most common and widely used codes with in CPT.

It describes the most of the procedure performed by the health care professional to the patient's in inpatient and outpatient hospitals.

Category 2: These are supplemental tracking codes used primarily for performance management.

Category 3: ​​​​​​category 3 codes are temporary codes that describes the emerging and experimental technologies, services and procedures.

Within each of these code fields, there are subfield.

This corresponds to how that topic- say anaesthesia-applies to particular field of health care.

CPT codes also have a number of modifiers.

These modifications are the 2 digit addition to the CPT code that describes certain important facets of the procedure like whether the procedure was bilateral or was one of the multiple procedure performed at the same time.

category 2:

These codes are formatted to four digits followed by the character F.

These codes are optional but can provide important information that can be used in performance management and future patient care.

These codes never replace category 1 or category 3 codes, instead simply provide extra information.

These are divided into numerical fields each of these corresponds with certain elements of patient care.

Category 3:

In cartain cases you will find that the newer procedures does not have category 1code.

These are codes for category 1unlisted procedures.

If the procedure or service or technology is listed in category 3 you are required to use category 3 code.

These codes are five character long and are compromised to four digits and a terminal letter "T".