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CPT 2011 Debuts Home Sleep Study Codes 95800, 95801

Published on Tue Mar 08, 2011

Question: I heard of two new home sleep study codes that debuted on Jan. 1. What are they? What important information should we know about them?

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Answer: Home sleep studies type II had made a straight transition from G0398 to 95806 in CPT 2010. The codes for home sleep studies type III and IV now have their own category I codes for 2011:

  • 95800 -- Sleep study, unattended, simultaneous recording; heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiratory analysis (e.g., by airflow or peripheral arterial tone), and sleep time
  • 95801 -- Sleep study, unattended, simultaneous recording; minimum of heart rate, oxygen saturation, and respiratory analysis (e.g., by airflow or peripheral arterial tone).

CPT has established these sleep study codes for reporting unattended sleep study testing services. These codes appear with a number (#) symbol to indicate that they are out of numerical sequence.

You may refer to this table for home sleep study codes you'll use and the tests they represent:

 

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