AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 12 (December)
Flexible Laryngoscopy (31575-31579) (December 2016)
December 2016 pages 13-14 Flexible Laryngoscopy (31575-31579) For 2017, changes have been made to the Larynx's Endoscopy subsection of the Respiratory System section of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, which resulted from a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) high-volume screen to identify potentially misvalued codes. Codes 31575 and 31579 were identified by CMS as being potentially misvalued. As a result of this identification, the entire Respiratory System flexible laryngoscopy code family has been reviewed and revisions and appropriate deletions have been made. Among other changes, codes 31575-31577 have been revised by removing the word...
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