New coding guidance: Catch 34 technical corrections for telemedicine services

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Article Overview

This article summarizes AMA technical corrections to 2025 CPT guidance related to telemedicine services. It is aimed at coders, billing staff, compliance teams, and clinicians who need to understand where the updated guidance appears across CPT chapters and which service categories are affected. The article organizes the corrections by manual section and highlights the broad types of telemedicine-related guidance addressed in the update.

Why This Topic Matters

The update consolidates a large set of 2025 CPT telemedicine corrections into a single reference point, helping readers recognize where manual guidance changed and which service families are implicated. It is useful for anyone reviewing telehealth documentation, charge capture, or CPT manual updates.

Article Sections

  1. Evaluation and Management / Telemedicine Services

    General telemedicine guidance within the E/M chapter, including the new service categories and related editorial corrections.

  2. Evaluation and Management / Prolonged Services

    Corrections affecting prolonged service guidance in the E/M chapter.

  3. Evaluation and Management / Preventive Medicine Services

    Updates involving preventive medicine guidance in relation to telemedicine services.

  4. Evaluation and Management / Non-Face-to-Face Services

    Revisions to non-face-to-face service guidance, including telephone, online, interprofessional, remote monitoring, and related categories.

  5. Evaluation and Management / Newborn Care Services

    Telemedicine-related guidance connected to newborn care and post-discharge follow-up services.

  6. Evaluation and Management / Cognitive Assessment and Care Plan Services

    Telemedicine guidance related to cognitive assessment and care planning.

  7. Evaluation and Management / Care Management Services

    Corrections affecting chronic, complex, and principal care management guidance.

  8. Evaluation and Management / Advance Care Planning

    Updates related to advance care planning and telemedicine.

  9. Surgery / Maternity Care and Delivery

    Telemedicine guidance affecting maternity care, postpartum services, and abortion-related content.

  10. Medicine / Psychiatry

    Corrections involving psychiatry, diagnostic procedures, psychotherapy, and pharmacologic management.

  11. Medicine / Dialysis

    Telemedicine-related corrections for dialysis services.

  12. Medicine / Cardiovascular

    Updates involving cardiovascular and anticoagulant-related services.

  13. Medicine / Pulmonary

    Corrections affecting pulmonary diagnostic, rehabilitation, and therapeutic services.

  14. Medicine / Allergy and Clinical Immunology

    Telemedicine-related guidance for allergy and immunology services.

  15. Medicine / Behavior Management Services

    Corrections involving behavior management and counseling-related services.

  16. Medicine / Hydration, Injections, Infusions, and Chemotherapy Services

    Updates involving hydration, injection, infusion, and chemotherapy service guidance.

  17. Medicine / Education and Training for Patient Self-Management

    Telemedicine guidance connected to patient self-management education and training.

  18. Medicine / Non-Face-to-Face Non-Physician QHP Services

    Corrections affecting telephone and other non-face-to-face services reported by non-physician qualified health professionals.

  19. Medicine / Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Treatment Management

    Updates involving remote therapeutic monitoring treatment management guidance.

What You Will Learn

  • Which CPT chapters and sections received telemedicine-related technical corrections
  • Which broad service categories were updated in the 2025 CPT manual
  • How the article organizes telemedicine guidance changes by specialty area
  • Which portions of the update relate to E/M, surgery, and medicine content
  • What kinds of telemedicine-related topics are covered in the correction summary

Who Should Read This

  • Medical coders
  • Billing and reimbursement staff
  • Compliance professionals
  • Physician practices
  • Telehealth administrators
  • Clinical documentation staff

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