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Versions of the Surgery Flags Software for Services and Procedures Tool

The appropriate version of the Surgery Flags Software for Services and Procedures Tool depends on the data year for which the CPT codes are valid.

Calendar Year 2023

  • v2023.1 for CPT Codes Valid in Calendar Year 2023

    The ZIP folder includes the CSV mapping file, a SAS mapping program, and all of the user documentation. At this time, the tool is only available as a SAS program.

For convenience, the user documentation for the Surgery Flags Software for Services and Procedures v2023.1 is also provided as separate documents:

Calendar Year 2022

  • v2022.1 for CPT Codes Valid in Calendar Year 2022

    The ZIP folder includes the CSV mapping file, a SAS mapping program, and all of the user documentation. At this time, the tool is only available as a SAS program.

For convenience, the user documentation for the Surgery Flags Software for Services and Procedures v2022.1 is also provided as separate documents:

Calendar Year 2021

  • v2021.1 for CPT Codes Valid in Calendar Year 2021

    The ZIP folder includes the CSV mapping file, a SAS mapping program, and all of the user documentation. At this time, the tool is only available as a SAS program.

Calendar Year 2020

  • v2020.1 for CPT Codes Valid in Calendar Year 2020, Released October 2020

    The ZIP folder includes the CSV mapping file, a SAS mapping program, and all of the user documentation. At this time, the tool is only available as a SAS program.

Calendar Years 2018-2019

  • v2019.2 for CPT Codes Valid in Calendars Year 2018-2019, Released October 2020

    The mapping of codes into Surgery Flag vales in v2019.2 is consistent with v2020.1 and includes the additional medicine and radiology codes and the revised coding of surgical codes. The ZIP folder includes the CSV mapping file, a SAS mapping program, and a copy of the Change Log from v2019.1 to v2019.2. At this time, the tool is only available as a SAS program.

Archived Prior Version

  • v2019.1 for CPT Codes Valid Between January 2013 and January 2019

    The identification of the Surgery Flags in v2019.1 may not take into consideration longitudinal changes in code definitions. This version does not include any of the additions or revisions implemented in v2020.1. The ZIP folder includes the CSV mapping file. This file does not have an accompanying program.