AMA CPT® Assistant - 2022 Issue 6 (June)
Changes in Surgery Guidelines for CPT 2022: Foreign Body vs Implant (June 2022)
June 2022 page 10 Changes in Surgery Guidelines for CPT 2022: Foreign Body vs Implant For the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2022 code set, definitions of “foreign body” and “implant” were added to the Surgery Guidelines to provide clarity between these two terms. Additional guidance was also provided regarding the conditions under which an implant may be considered a foreign body for the purposes of coding, as well as the appropriate action to take if special instructions are already present for a given code, or if separate codes are available for the removal of a broken or moved...
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