Profound Medical announces Category 1 CPT codes for TULSA

Profound Medical announced that U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued its proposed rules establishing, for the first time, a Category 1 CPT code for the Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation, TULSA, procedure, effective January 1, 2025. According to the proposed rule, TULSA will have 3 physician codes to cover how therapy is delivered depending on if there are one or two physicians involved in the procedure: 5×006 TULSA Device Management and 5×007 TULSA Treatment, when two physicians are involved in the procedure, and 5×008 TULSA Complete Procedure, when performed by a single physician. TULSA will have a 0-day global period, indicating that the payment associated with the codes will only cover the work performed on the day TULSA is performed. Physicians will thereby bill for any pre or post patient visit separately using existing codes. This will provide physicians with the most flexibility to assess the appropriate number of visits needed by each patient and enable their safe and fast recovery. TULSA codes have also been assigned to all three sites of service: Hospital Outpatient, Ambulatory Surgical Center, and Private Office/Non-Facility.