AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2026 Issue 2; In This Issue

2026 Surgery Section CPT Code Update, Part 2

The American Medical Association (AMA) publishes new, revised, and deleted CPT codes annually, along with the logic and rationale behind these code updates. New or revised coding guidelines appear in each section and in selected parenthetical notes following many of the CPT codes in the codebook. This article will provide an overview of some of the 2026 changes to the Surgery Guidelines and to the CPT codes for the Musculoskeletal System and the Digestive System. There is revised text for the laparoscopic procedure codes published in the current CPT Changes: An Insider’s View. The term “peritoneoscopy&rdquo...

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