I like Angela's plan as HCPCS is the superset of terms. If after we deploy, we 
find that we only need a smaller set, like HCPT, or CPT, we can drop down to 
the smaller set.  But we will have the data behind the decision to do so.

Phillip

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On Mar 24, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Dan Connolly 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

no, #243<https://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/ticket/243> is still 
open. We didn't make any decisions.

--
Dan

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Subject: Re: CPT codes for procedures

I was on the call and missed that there is a preference for HCPCS - did the 
group really make that decision?

Bonnie L. Westra, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,
School of Nursing & Institute for Health Informatics
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Bos, Angela 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
When building UTHSCSA UMLS-CPT terms, we used only CPT2014. But based on 
today’s gpc-dev conversation, it seems like HCPCS is preferred. HCPCS level 1 
codes are 5-digit numeric HCPT codes. HCPCS level 2 are a letter followed by 
four numeric digits as the HCPCS code.

I think I should rebuild our terms with this order of precedence: HCPCS > HCPT 
> CPT. In doing so, we should end up with terms that are more aligned with the 
current UTSW hierarchy.

For i2b2, we should prepend the codes to the browse-able terms, similar to UTSW 
but maybe omitting the ‘Level 1’ for subfolders, and postfix codes in the i2v2 
search paths.

Questions/comments on this course of action?

-Angela | UTHSCSA



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