AMA CPT® Assistant - 2020 Issue 10 (October)

Reporting Nuclear Medicine SPECT Imaging Procedures (October 2020)

October 2020 pages 3-7 Reporting Nuclear Medicine SPECT Imaging Procedures In response to changing technology, significant changes were made in the Nuclear Medicine subsection of the Radiology section of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2020 code set to address the gaps in coding for several types of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) computerized tomography (CT) studies and to account for the additional resources used in nuclear medicine procedures. Three new codes (78830-78832) were added to report SPECT and SPECT-CT studies, and one new add-on code (78835) was added to report radiopharmaceutical quantification measurement(s). With creation of these new...

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