OTOLOGIC and AUDIOLOGIC CPT CODES

PLEASE NOTE:  According to a recent article by Fred Rahe, Au.D.(see News Articles), there have been changes to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system for 2010, requiring the use of bundled codes when available.  Please read the article for additional information.

AUDIOLOGIC FUNCTION TESTS

CODE      DESCRIPTION
92550      Tympanometry and Reflex Threshold Measurements
92551

     Screening Test, Pure Tone, Air only

92552

     Threshold Test, Pure Tone Audiometry, Air only

92553

     Threshold Test, Pure Tone Audiometry, Air and Bone

92555      Threshold Test, Speech Audiometry
92556      Speech Audiometry Threshold, With Speech Recognition
92557

     Comprehensive Audiometry Threshold Evaluation and Speech Recognition

92559      Audiometric Testing of Groups
92560      Bekesy Audiometry, Screening
92561      Bekesy Audiometry, Diagnostic
92562      Loudness Balance Test, Alternate Binaural or Monaural
92563      Tone Decay Test
92564      Short Increment Sensitivity Index (SISI)
92565      Stenger Test, Pure Tone
92567      Tympanometry (Impedance Testing)
92568      Acoustic Reflex Test
92569      Acoustic Reflex Decay Test
92570      Acoustic Immittance Testing, includes Tympanometry (impedance testing), Acoustic Reflex Threshold Testing and Acoustic Reflex Decay Testing
92571      Filtered Speech Test
92572      Staggered Spondaic Word Test (SSW)
92573      Lombard Test
92575      Sensorineural Acuity Level Test
92576      Synthetic Sentence Identification Test
92577      Stenger Test, Speech
92579      Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)
92582      Conditioning Play Audiometry
92583      Select Picture Audiometry

Evoked Potential Tests, with Medical Diagnostic Evaluation

CODE      DESCRIPTION
92584      Electrocochleography
92585      Auditory Evoked Potentials for Evoked Response Audiometry and/or Testing of the Central Nervous System
92586      Auditory Evoked Potentials, limited

 

 

Otoacoustic Emission Tests with Medical Diagnostic Evaluation

CODE DESCRIPTION
92587      Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions; limited single stimulus level, either Transient and/or Distortion Products (Screening)
92588      Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions, comprehensive or diagnostic evaluation (comparison of Transient and/or Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions at multiple levels and frequencies)

Vestibular Function Tests, with Observation and Evaluation by Physician, without Electrical Recording

CODE DESCRIPTION
92531      Spontaneous Nystagmus, including gaze
92532      Positional Nystagmus
92533      Caloric Vestibular Test, each irrigation (binaural, bithermal stimulation constitutes four tests)
92534      Optokinetic Nystagmus

 

Vestibular Function Tests, with Recording (e.g. ENG, PENG) and Medical Diagnostic Evaluation

CODE      DESCRIPTION
92540

     Basic Vestibular Evaluation, includes Spontaneous Nystagmus Test with Eccentric Gaze Fixation Nystagmus with recording, Positional Nystagmus Test, minimum of 4 positions, with recording, Optokinetic Nystagmus Test, Bidirectional Foveal and Peripheral Stimulation, with recording, and Oscillating Tracking Test, with recording.  Note:  92540 should not be unbundled.

92541      Spontaneous Nystagmus, with recording
92542      Positional Nystagmus, minimum of four positions, with recording
92543      Caloric Vestibular Test, each irrigation (binaural, bithermal stimulation constitutes four tests), with recording
92544      Optokinetic Nystagmus Test, bidirectional, foveal or peripheral stimulation, with recording
92545      Oscillator Tracking Test, with recording
92546      Sinusoidal Vertical Axis Rotational Testing
92547      Use of Vertical Electrodes (list separately in addition to code for primary procedure; i.e. use 92547 in conjunction with codes 92541 - 92546)
92548      Computerized Dynamic Posturography
92599      Unlisted Vestibular Tests