tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 40

PHYSICIAN NOTES: CPT Committee Releases Five Pages of Errata

If you had trouble finding -Sengstaaken- in your medical dictionary, that's because it was a typo in CPT 2008. The AMA has released its list of corrections to errors in CPT 2008, and the errors range from spelling mistakes (such as the misspelling of -Sengstaken- in the 43460 descriptor) to incorrect captions (for instance, the thoracentesis illustration that references 32421 should instead refer to 32422).To read the full list of CPT 2008 corrections, visit the AMA's Web site at www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/362/08cptcorrections.pdf. In other news: Empire Medicare recently directed providers in Indiana and Kentucky to start requiring...

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