CPT® code set quick reference guide

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes offer physicians and health care professionals a uniform language for coding medical services and procedures to streamline reporting, increase accuracy and efficiency.

Innovation could provide better care for patients, and a CPT code could help. CPT codes can remove obstacles to care, so that physicians can put the work into practice.

The CPT® Editorial Panel Process

• How to submit a code change application—in detail
• A calendar of CPT Editorial Panel meetings and submission deadlines
• The results of CPT Editorial Panel meetings—what was the vote?
• Summary information on the latest CPT codes and content—sign up for CPT News

Innovation and technology

• How CPT coding supports advancements in medicine
• AMA's Return on Health: Telehealth framework for practices

Medical practice management

• Medical practice management tools to transform practices, navigate state and federal regulations and understand the particulars of different payment models:
  • Reducing administrative burden
  • Practice transformation
  • AMA STEPS Forward^TM
  • Implementing digital health

Health equity

• AMA’s strategic plan to embed racial justice and advance health equity

Learn more on how to get involved with the CPT code set development process.