CPT code library

The CPT codes chiropractors actually bill.

Not a code dump. Each guide covers what the code means in a chiropractic practice, what the note must show, the Medicare rules, a worked example, and where practices get burned, written by a practicing chiropractor whose own three location practice bills these codes daily, with citations to CMS and NCCI sources on every page.

Spinal CMT

98940 Chiropractic manipulative treatment, spinal, one to two regions
98941 Chiropractic manipulative treatment, spinal, three to four regions
98942 Chiropractic manipulative treatment, spinal, five regions

Extraspinal CMT

98943 Chiropractic manipulative treatment, extraspinal

Timed therapy

97110 Therapeutic exercise
97140 Manual therapy techniques
97124 Massage therapy

Supervised modality

97012 Mechanical traction
97014 Electrical stimulation, unattended
G0283 Electrical stimulation, unattended (Medicare)

The modifiers that decide whether it pays

AT modifier Active treatment modifier for Medicare CMT
Modifier 25 Significant, separately identifiable E/M on the same day
Modifier 59 / XS Distinct procedural service

The companion library: what happens when these codes deny

Every code above has a failure mode, and each failure mode has a CARC code on the remittance. The denial code library picks up exactly where this one leaves off: CO-97 when 97140 bundles into the adjustment, CO-50 when the AT modifier outlives active care, CO-181 when 97014 goes to a payer that wants G0283. The two libraries cross link because that is how billing actually works.

CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Descriptions here are paraphrased; AMA publications control. General information, not coding advice for any individual claim.

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