If you're on Medicare and trying to figure out whether something is covered, CPT codes are the glue in a rat trap, the pin sticking bug to a board, you get the

If you're on Medicare and trying to figure out whether something is covered, CPT codes are the glue in a rat trap, the pin sticking bug to a board, you get the idea. Everything is done by CPT codes. But you can't go and reference them yourself, even on the Medicare web site (no, really you can't). Doctors will tell you something is covered, then you have to demand the CPT code from them and call Medicare to find out if it's covered. Or, you can trust the doctor... who will be correct until they aren't. Sometimes doctors don't even know what CPT code they'll use until they see you.