07:31 AM EDT, 07/11/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Profound Medical ( PROF ) , a company developing incision-free therapies to ablate diseased tissue, on Thursday said the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued its proposed rules establishing a Category 1 CPT (current procedural terminology) code for the Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation (TULSA) procedure, effective January 1, 2025.

CPT codes are used for claims processing and developing guidelines for medical care review.

According to the proposed rule, TULSA will have three physician codes to cover how therapy is delivered depending on whether there are one or two physicians involved in the procedure and where the procedure is performed -- hospital, surgical centre, and private office.