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The American Medical Association has issued the latest updates to its CPT 2010 Book, according to the AMA website.
The 14-page update was published April 12. Noteworthy changes include revising modifier -A1 (Principal Physician or Record) to AI and deleting the parenthetical note following CPT 47490 — "For radiological supervision and interpretation, use 75989" — as code 47490 has been revised and is now a bundled service.
View the latest changes by AMA to CPT 2010 (pdf).
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