Keep Track of Complex Clinical Treatment Planning Definitions
Published on Tue Nov 14, 2006
CPT guidelines printed with the codes explain that clinical treatment planning includes:
- Interpretation of special testing
- Tumor localization
- Treatment volume determination
- Treatment time/dosage determination
- Choice of treatment modality
- Determination of number and size of treatment ports
- Selection of appropriate treatment devices
- Other procedures. CPT guidelines state that -complex planning requires highly complex blocking, custom shielding blocks, tangential ports, special wedges or compensators, three or more separate treatment areas, rotational or special beam considerations, combination of therapeutic modalities.-
Source: CPT 2006, Professional Edition, AMA