AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 10 (October)

CPT Category II Codes: Performance Measures (October 2005)

October 2005 pages 1-9 CPT Category II Codes: Performance Measures This article provides a brief overview of the quality environment as context for the conceptualization of CPT Category II codes and includes a summary of new codes and revisions to existing codes approved by the CPT Editorial Panel for 2006. The Quality Environment The publication of two national reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) characterizing US health care quality, To Err is Human (1999) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), generated unprecedented public awareness of patient safety and quality gaps in the health care delivery system. Although quality...

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