The CPT Editorial Panel (Panel) periodically creates committees and workgroups to address emerging challenges in healthcare and coding. Explore active and recently sunset CPT workgroups.
Digital Medicine Coding Committee
The CPT Editorial Panel created the Digital Medicine Coding Committee in 2024. The committee’s charge is to respond to requests from the Panel and to support the Panel on coding issues that involve or may include a digital medicine and/or an artificial intelligence component by providing or obtaining expertise or advice on a specific subject matter. At all times, the Panel shall have the sole authority to create, revise and update codes, descriptions and applicable guidelines for appropriate CPT coding.
Maternity Care Services Workgroup
(Sunset)
A code change application was submitted and approved by the CPT Editorial Panel at the September 2025 meeting. Significant revisions to CPT codes for maternity care services will go into effect Jan. 1, 2027.
To help the healthcare ecosystem prepare to implement these revisions the AMA is providing early education and resources on the revisions to this section of the CPT code set. The CPT 2027 maternity care services resources available on the "CPT® 2027 Maternity Care Services code changes" page are available to all and for use by physicians, other qualified healthcare professionals, coders, auditors, payers, claims edits software staff and more.
The Panel created the Maternity Care Services Workgroup as a result of a code change application from the February 2024 Panel meeting.
The workgroup’s charge was to assess the current practice of maternity care including antepartum care, labor management, delivery and postpartum services to bring forth a code change application with suggested changes to existing codes. The workgroup also proposed new codes which reflected the current practice of medicine while aligning with the rules, guidelines and conventions of the current CPT code set, and meeting the needs of all stakeholders.
Each public call allowed for time at the end for stakeholder comments. We could not guarantee that there was time for everyone to speak during these open comment sections, but it was our intent to hear all perspectives.
This workgroup officially sunset on Oct. 1, 2025.
Neurostimulator Workgroup
In October 2025 the CPT Editorial Panel chair approved the formation of a multi-specialty workgroup to address the growing concerns of neurostimulator coding.
The charge of this workgroup is to evaluate and clarify the CPT coding structure for neurostimulator systems by addressing stakeholder concerns and potential gaps in current guidance to achieve consistent application of the definitions across services currently provided by physicians. The group will assess whether new codes or revisions are needed to address confusion around physician work related to integrated and non-integrated systems.
Review the CPT Neurostimulator Workgroup’s work plan (PDF) for clarifying CPT coding for peripheral neurostimulators.
Value-Based Care Workgroup
In 2024, the AMA published a report that synthesizes important feedback from each sector of the healthcare ecosystem to understand how the CPT code set supports current value-based care arrangements and where there are opportunities for continued evolution.
As an outcome of this research, the CPT Editorial Panel created the Value-Based Care Workgroup. This workgroup is charged with evaluating how the CPT code set can more accurately reflect the clinical and operational realities of VBC models, which are increasingly team-based, digital and focused on outcomes.
Through this workgroup, the Panel is exploring:
- Episode-based approaches that reflect care delivered across time and teams.
- Modernizing code structures to better reflect longitudinal, team-based and digital-first models.
After considering potential approaches, the workgroup has opted to look at two use cases using these framework approaches:
- Multi-level approach.
- Bundled care model.
These approaches were discussed and presented at the February 2026 CPT Editorial Panel meeting. Attendees of the meeting were invited to provide input and ask questions about the workgroup’s progress. The workgroup took the information back to help further refine and inform their ongoing work.
As part of the workgroup’s multi-phase plan, a code change application was submitted at the September 2025 CPT Editorial Panel meeting to update the current chronic care management codes, including principal care management (PCM), chronic care management (CCM) and complex chronic care management (CCCM), to:
- Open up the definition of clinical staff to have broader application and align with modern care management care team make-up.
- Specifically call out digital health as ways to communicate with patients and execute parts of the care plan.
These changes will be effective Jan. 1, 2027.
Cryoablation-Cryosurgical Definitions Workgroup
In May 2026, the CPT Editorial Panel and the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) created a joint workgroup to evaluate and clarify the CPT coding structure for reporting thermal destruction procedures that use cold temperature agents.
The charge of this workgroup is to evaluate and clarify the CPT coding structure for reporting thermal destruction procedures starting with cryoneurolysis, cryoablation, cryosurgical, and cryotherapy procedures by addressing existing definitions such as destruction, as well as further defining the differences between lysis, ablation, surgical and therapy procedures using cold temperature agents. The workgroup will recommend, as needed, changes to definitions, introductory guidelines, parentheticals and code descriptors to reflect the current practice of medicine.
The CPT/RUC joint workgroup will hold its first meeting in October 2026.
