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To the Editor: Current Procedural Code (CPT) 76811 (“ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, maternal evaluation plus detailed fetal anatomic examination, transabdominal, single or first gestation”) was first included in the 2003 edition of CPT. In 2014, the Consensus Report on the Detailed Fetal Anatomic Ultrasound Examination was published. The authors of the 2014 consensus report later modified the list of indications by including the more standard definition of obesity with increased body mass index of ≥30 kg/m as an indication for 76811. On behalf of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine Coding Committee, we have previously published those indications listed in the Consensus Statement and the proposed modification pertaining to obesity with the corresponding ICD-10 codes. The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine Coding Committee generated a coding white paper