Profound Medical Corp. announced that, with sponsorship and support from multiple physician specialty societies, the American Medical Association (‘AMA') has established three new Current Procedural Terminology (‘CPT®') Category 1 codes for MRI-Monitored Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation (‘TULSA') of prostate tissue, performed using Profound's TULSA-PRO® system. The first CPT® Code describes the complete TULSA procedure when furnished by a single physician, such as a urologist.

The other two CPT codes each describe a part of the TULSA procedure when TULSA is furnished by two physicians, such as a urologist in collaboration with a radiologist. The three new CPT® Category 1 codes and their descriptors covering the TULSA procedure will be included in a future edition of the CPT® Codebook and will be effective on January 1, 2025. In the meantime, U.S. hospitals performing the TULSA procedure on Medicare patients may continue to utilize HCPCS C code, C9734, established by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (‘OPPS').

Effective January 1, 2023, reimbursement to a hospital billing under C9734 was increased to $13,048.