Temporary CPT codes used in systems, but ultimately rejected by CMS

[MPhilofsky (Melanie Philofsky)]

I’ll let the vocab experts answer question #1.

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@piper

Any guidance on how to handle these in the ETLs? Exclude these records altogether, or include and map to concept_id 0?

I don’t see any potential for a study involving PPE. Was the PPE used by the providers or the patients? Do you have a use case? If not, don’t bring these data into the CDM. It just lowers your data quality and increases data size which slows down the tools.