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#Resequenced Is Always Trending in CPT® Manual

Published on Wed Apr 06, 2022

Question: I was coding for a patient who had a spinal puncture, and was perusing this section of the CPT® book. Why are the spinal puncture codes 62270 through 62329 out of numerical order? It’s a bit confusing. California Subscriber Answer: Sometimes, CPT® adds codes to a group that are out of numerical sequence. CPT® does this when a new [...]
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