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cpt: 94720 Diffusing capacity of the lung (D L ) (also known as transfer factor ) measures the transfer of gas from air in the lung, to the red blood cells in lung blood vessels. It is part of a comprehensive series of pulmonary function tests to determine the overall ability of the lung to transport gas into and out of the blood.
The CPT code revisions in 2013 were part of a periodic five-year review of codes. Some psychotherapy codes changed numbers, for example 90806 changed to 90834 for individual psychotherapy of a similar duration. Add-on codes were created for the complexity of communication about procedures.
The use of Level III codes was discontinued on December 31, 2003, in order to adhere to consistent coding standards. [ 3 ] : 2 Level III codes were different from the modern CPT Category III codes, which were introduced in 2001 to code emerging technology.
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The original mammogram codes (film based mammograms) are CPT codes (77055, 77056, and 77057), so it would be easy to overlook the increasingly used digital mammogram codes that remain as HCPCS Level 2 codes if one did not know they existed (and possibly under-report mammogram statistics).
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