AMA CPT® Assistant - 2000 Issue 6 (June)

CPT-5: The Final Recommendations (June 2000)

June 2000 pages 1-2 CPT-5: The Final Recommendations CPT-5 is an effort by the American Medical Association to develop the next generation of Current Procedural Terminology (CPTTM). The Project is structured to respond to challenges presented by emerging user needs and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Previous issues of the CPT Assistant discussed the process (Apr. 1999) and preliminary recommendations (Feb. 2000). Therefore, in this article will discuss in detail three of the final recommendations and describe the implementation schedule for changes to CPT. Some of the changes include the addition of two new...

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