The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced its intent to issue a new Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code for intraoperative visual axis identification using patient fixation. The new code is to be listed separately in addition to the code for the primary procedure, that is, used in conjunction with AMA CPT codes 66982 and 66984.

The new Category III code has an effective implementation date of January 1, 2019.

For more detail, read the Mynosys press release.