Tag: CPT Code updates

2025 CPT Code Updates

2025 CPT Code Updates: Key Changes in Billing and Coding Practices

Each year, updates to CPT® codes are introduced to reflect advancements in medical procedures and technologies, impacting billing and coding across multiple specialties. Effective January 1, these annual updates encompass new, revised, and deleted codes, along with updated coding guidelines. For 2025 CPT Code Updates, there are 270 new codes, 112 revised codes, and 49 […]
Upcoming Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Coding

COVID-19 Vaccine Coding Updates: What You Need to Know

An Oncoming Wave of 70+ Coding Revisions Is Approaching. Starting from November 1st, the American Medical Association is eliminating nearly all of the COVID-19 vaccine-related CPT® codes that were developed over the past several years. Instead, there will be a more concise set of product codes and a solitary administration code to replace them. What […]
CPT-Code-Set-Released-for-the-year-2023

CPT Code Set Released for the year 2023

The American Medical Association (AMA) says the 2023 CPT code updates emphasize its efforts to reduce administrative tasks. The AMA released the calendar year 2023 CPT code set, which builds on the AMA’s efforts to reduce administrative tasks in medicine, according to a recent press release. The CPT code update contains 393 changes, including 225 […]
Get-Ready-for-EM-Coding-in 2023

Get Ready for E/M Coding in 2023

The reverberations of the 2021 evaluation and management (E/M) documentation guidelines have barely subsided, yet we are already on the verge of witnessing further changes in this segment of CPT® for 2023 – and this time, the implications stretch beyond mere office visits. If your healthcare institution conscientiously adopted the 2021 E/M guidelines, there’s no […]

AMA Releases 2019 CPT Code Set

New code changes number 335. The new current procedural terminology (CPT®) codes have been released with 335 code changes in 2019.  There were many code revisions with guidelines, descriptions and instructional note changes.   Let’s look at the highlights of many new CPT codes for 2019. There six new codes in the Evaluation and Management (E&M) […]