The acceptance establishes Category III CPT® codes X505T–X510T, creating a dedicated mechanism for providers to report autologous heterogeneous skin construct graft procedures in the clinical use of ...

AMA publishes CPT code for spine to cover bone-anchored annular closure device placement after lumbar discectomy, improving coding accuracy.

Senate health committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), blasted the American Medical Association (AMA) for continuing what he called a "government-backed monopoly" over Current Procedural ...

The American Medical Association has released new medical codes for 2026 amid a growing debate about whether the medical group may have too much influence over the healthcare coding system. The AMA ...

The American Medical Association has posted the latest update to the current procedural terminology code set, which deletes more than 80 existing codes and adds nearly 290 new codes. Among the new ...

1. The 2026 CPT code set includes 418 total changes: 288 new codes, 84 deletions and 46 revisions. 2. Proprietary laboratory analyses and Category III CPT codes for emerging medical services each make ...

Therapists working in today’s ever-evolving healthcare landscape know that keeping up with coding changes isn’t just an administrative task; it’s a clinical imperative. The tools we use to describe ...

Kukoyi is a Morehead-Cain scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Agbafe is an M.D. student at the University of Michigan Medical School and a J.D./M.B.A. student at Yale.