By Andrea Gohmert and Susan Von Dollen

This article is a part of the July/August 2021, Volume 33, Number 4, Audiology Today issue.

In January 2021, for the first time since 1996, changes were made to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes assigned to auditory evoked potentials (AEPs). These changes led to numerous questions from practitioners regarding appropriate coding for auditory evoked potentials and related services.

Descriptions of these new AEP codes (92650 through 92653) were initially released in the CPT manual for 2021 and use of these codes began on January 1, 2021. Overview and discussion of the new codes and reporting have been presented in CPT Assistant, October 2020, p.9, and in an Audiology Today article (Jilla and Burton, 2021).

The objective of this article is to provide a review of these new codes and case-based examples based on member questions.

Newborn Hearing Screening
92650–Auditory evoked potentials: screening of auditory evoked potentials with broadband stimuli, automated analysis
This new code is intended for reporting an automated screening of auditory evoked potential responses. This procedure does not include work related to professional-driven analysis or interpretation of a waveform, but rather for an automated analysis generating a pass/refer or pass/fail result.

Most commonly, this code would be reported for activities related to newborn hearing screenings, but it may have relevant applications among other patient populations (e.g., patients who are difficult to test behaviorally and who also present with significant barriers to completion of diagnostic AEP evaluation).

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