As the trusted authority behind CPT® guidance and insights, the American Medical Association continues to enhance its suite of CPT solutions to support confident coding decisions across the health care ecosystem. Accurate coding does more than support billing, it strengthens the data that informs research, policy and clinical workflows.
CPT® Intelligence is a powerful new solution that enables users to access the most current coding information. This set of resources will combine robust, contextual information from CPT® Refresh Premium with the coding guidance of CPT® Assistant, CPT® Vignettes and CPT® Knowledge Base. When integrated through a single API into health care technology platforms, the solution will provide guidance to address coding questions, reduce complexity and enable coding accuracy at scale. Bundling the products will enable an integrated capability that allows users to search across the existing CPT products and find the answers they need faster. CPT Intelligence supports queries using questions, keywords or a specific CPT code to surface coding insights across large complex datasets. Results will be relevance-ranked and prioritized, improving the accuracy and usability of the answers.
For providers and coding teams
Providers face an increasingly complex process when documenting procedures for essential functions like claims processing, prior authorization, and clinical pathway support. When CPT Intelligence is embedded directly into their workflow, it connects them to the most accurate coding guidance through powerful search delivering faster answers at the point of care without the need to sift through manuals or guess at terminology. For coding teams, this means greater confidence and consistency when coding complex cases.
For health tech buyers
Providing the most relevant guidance on CPT codes for customers while maintaining data in their systems is central to success for RCM, EMR and many other health tech companies. When embedded into workflows, CPT Intelligence leverages human inputs—not just keywords—to surface coding insights across large complex datasets. This means enhanced workflows and more accurate coding.
The CPT Intelligence solution will help both health care professionals find the coding guidance they need and health technology companies to provide their customers with authoritative CPT content.
- CPT Assistant contains over 35 years of educational content, updated monthly via the CPT Assistant publication, to provide detailed explanations, coding tips and clinical examples for the proper application of CPT codes.
- CPT Knowledge Base* is a centralized database of over 4,000 commonly asked coding questions thoughtfully answered by CPT experts which include the CPT Assistant Editorial Board and the AMA CPT Advisory Committee.
- CPT Vignettes*provide the authoritative clinical coding scenarios and comprehensive descriptions of services or procedures involved for the majority of CPT codes for the typical patient, providing clarity on the intended use of the CPT code for end users.
- CPT Refresh Premium simplifies the implementation of CPT code changes with structured data that integrates easily into existing workflows. It also informs coding workflows by providing rich contextual information from CPT® Professional Edition to educate on the appropriate use of CPT codes not only for billing, but also for data quality, research, interoperability and other functions. Users can navigate codes with confidence using relationship-driven data and contextual insights that enable intuitive search.
CPT Intelligence supports the work of technology vendors and their valued customers. Clinical and operational health technology vendors can maintain coding guidance internally by relying on continuously updated, authoritative content managed by the AMA. Clinical and operations professionals at health care organizations can trust that they are receiving guidance based on primary source CPT citations.
*CPT Knowledge Base and CPT Vignettes are exclusively included in the CPT® Advanced Coding Pack and are not available separately.
