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AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 10 (October)
CPT Category II Codes: Performance Measures (October 2005)
October 2005 pages 1-9
CPT Category II Codes: Performance Measures
This article provides a brief overview of the quality environment as context for the conceptualization of CPT Category II codes and includes a summary of new codes and revisions to existing codes approved by the CPT Editorial Panel for 2006.
The Quality Environment
The publication of two national reports by the
Institute of Medicine (IOM) characterizing US
health care quality, To Err is Human (1999) and
Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), generated
unprecedented public awareness of patient safety
and quality gaps in the health care delivery system.
Although quality...
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