Michelson Diagnostics Secures CPT codes for Optical Coherence Tomography imaging of skin

Michelson Diagnostics announces that the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel recently approved two new Category III CPT codes for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging of skin. Code 0470T is for OCT microstructural and morphological imaging of skin, image acquisition, interpretation and report for a first lesion; code 0471T is the same for each additional lesion. The new Category III codes, which are for emerging technologies, services, and procedures, are effective July 1, 2017. Michelson Diagnostics pursued approval of this code at the AMA CPT Panel meeting in October 2016, receiving support from the American Academy of Dermatology.

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