CPT® 2015: Look for Revised, Updated Chronic Care Management Codes in January

Why This Topic Matters

The piece helps coding and billing professionals identify upcoming CPT changes that may affect documentation, charge capture, and reimbursement planning for chronic care services and immunization reporting.

Article Sections

1. CCM Already Updated

   This section introduces changes to the chronic care management area of CPT and discusses the scope of the updated code family at a broad level.

2. Revised

   This section presents a revised chronic care management code discussion and highlights that a prior code in the series has been removed.

3. New

   This section covers newly added companion chronic care management codes and the general purpose of expanding the code family.

4. Check Out These Vaccine Changes

   This section previews additional CPT 2015 vaccine coding updates, including influenza immunization-related changes.

5. New code:

   This short subsection notes a newly added flu immunization code without providing detailed coding guidance.

6. Revision:

   This short subsection notes a revised flu immunization code without elaborating on the underlying code changes.