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Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group coding highlights

The CPT® Editorial Panel has a long history of creating coding solutions to meet the needs of digital medicine and telehealth.

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How CPT codes help track COVID-19 vaccine life cycle

The AMA CPT Editorial Panel has moved faster than ever to create codes during the pandemic. Find out why that streamlined effort is so crucial.

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Not grandma’s CPT: Code set evolves amid pandemic, pay challenges

CPT Editorial Panel provides rapid response to COVID-19, and CPT symposium’s expert panelists advise on frequent Medicare coding conundrums.

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New voices, perspective sought as CPT Editorial Panel expands

CPT panel in charge of maintaining “the language of medicine” adds new members fluent in the vocabulary of digital health and emerging medical technology.

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Video: How payment codes help improve hospital readmission rates

Updating code sets so physicians can be paid for new models of care could be a “game-changer” in improving hospital readmission rates, according to one physician at the forefront of these changes.David Ellington, MD, a family physician from Virginia and a member of the CPT® Editorial Panel, explains the process behind code development and how the panel is facilitating innovations in medicine.

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Lifecycle of a code: How the CPT® and RUC process works

Clinicians should have a say in how medical nomenclature is created and how services are valued—after all, physicians and other qualified health care professionals are the ones directly responsible for providing patient care.

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