tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 37

Physicians: AMA Outlines Possible Upcoming CPT Codes

CMS continues push for disposal of non-physician workpool.  Physicians could soon have codes for wound care, stereotactic radiotherapy and rapid lung screens--if some proposed codes become reality. The American Medical Association provided more clues to the codes physicians might see in 2006 or 2007. The AMA posted the agendas for the June meeting of the CPT Editorial Panel and the upcoming October meeting of the RVU Update Committee and Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee. In June, the CPT panel discussed a number of proposed new codes, including sustained graduated high-moderate venous ulcer compression therapy, proposed by the Society...

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