CPT® Assistant (July 2024): Add to your antibody testing knowledge


The American Medical Association (AMA) released the July 2024 CPT® Assistant. Leading the issue this month is an article on 2024 updates to immunology coding, with a focus on acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody testing and muscle-specific kinase (MuSK) antibody testing.

To find all the articles from Volume 34, Issue 7, subscribers to Code Connect — Codify by AAPC’s CPT® Assistant search add-on — can check for these topics and codes when they log in:

  • Immunology updates, 2024: 86041-86043, 86366
  • Neurostimulation, bladder dysfunction: 0587T-0590T
  • Subretinal injection, pharmacologic agent: 0810T

The July issue also includes a Questions and Answers section covering these topics and codes:

  • Cardiovascular system:
    • ECG, cardioversion: 92960, 59
  • Digestive system:
    • Stone, bile duct, dilation, stent: 43277
    • Esophagus, dilator, no visualization: 43450
    • Destruction, lesions, anus: 46924
  • Evaluation and management
    • Complex chronic care management: 99487
  • Integumentary system:
    • Adjacent tissue transfer, rearrangement, defect size: 14000-14302
  • Musculoskeletal system:
    • Tenodesis, arthroplasty: 23430, 23472
    • Double sugar-tong arm splint: 29105
  • Neurology and neuromuscular procedures:
    • Transcranial motor stimulation study, unilaterally: 95939, 52
  • Pathology and laboratory
    • Respiratory syncytial virus, point-of-care test: 87420