Cms no longer allows a 90day grace period for using discontinued codes, so get your books early and stay uptodate. Modifier 53 discontinued procedure is appended to codes 44388, 45378 cms manual system. The current procedural terminology cpt code 45378 as maintained by american medical association, is a medical procedural code under the range endoscopy procedures on. Cy 2016 medicare physician fee schedule final rule aamc. Our selection of 2020 cpt books contain all codes, modifiers, and descriptions for the current year. Rates change for incomplete colonoscopies in critical. This is the definitive amaauthored resource to help health. If youre seeing this message, that means javascript has been disabled on your browser, please enable js to make this app work. The current procedural terminology cpt code 45379 as maintained by american medical association, is a medical procedural code under the range endoscopy procedures on. In cy 2015, the cpt instruction changed the definition of an incomplete colonoscopy to a colonoscopy that does not evaluate the entire colon.
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