Competitive Technologies, Inc. (CTTC) Announces New CPT Code for Scrambler Therapy
Last Friday, Competitive Technologies, Inc. announced that the American Medical Association's Editorial Panel for Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) established a new Category III CPT® code to report procedures, such as treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), involving the Company's Calmare® pain therapy medical device, which features Scrambler Therapy™ technology. The new CPT code is 0278T Transcutaneous electrical modulation pain reprocessing (e.g., scrambler therapy), each treatment session (includes placement of electrodes). The Calmare device has successfully treated CIPN and other neuropathic cancer pain in thousands of patients. It has done so without any of the adverse side effects normally associated with…