Practice Management Alert
CPT® 2015:
General Surgery: Scour the 70+ General Surgery Changes Coming Next Year
Published on Tue Sep 23, 2014
Watch for code changes to colonoscopy, wound therapy, endoscopy, and more.
If you are a general surgery coder, you have perhaps the greatest number of changes to learn year after year because of the number of procedures your physicians perform. 2015 is no different.
With more than 70 code additions, deletions, and revisions that your general surgeon is likely to use, you can’t afford to wait until next January to get to know the code changes. We’ve created this handy table that condenses the most significant CPT® 2015 changes for general surgery coders into one place.
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