AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 7 (July)
Coding Brief: Evaluation of Auditory Rehabilitation Status (92626) (July 2014)
July 2014 page 4 Coding Brief: Evaluation of Auditory Rehabilitation Status (92626) Background CPT code 92626, Evaluation of auditory rehabilitation status; first hour, appears in the Special Otorhinolaryngologic Services subsection of the CPT code set. Code 92626 was added in 2006 to describe the assessment of a patient's auditory rehabilitation status. The assessment is designed to measure the effectiveness of residual hearing with hearing aids or cochlear implants, which includes a series of speech-perception and communication-outcome measures. In 2013, the code was flagged by the AMA resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) Update Committee (RUC's) Relativity Assessment Workgroup (RAW) due...
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