CPT Category II code updates by AMA
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The American Medical Association (AMA) has released an update of CPT Category II code list, which will first appear in CPT 2012, with an implementation date of 1st Jan, 2011. The CPT Category II codes are supplemental tracking codes that can be used for performance measurement.
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The American Medical Association (AMA) has released an update of CPT Category II code list, which will first appear in CPT 2012, with an implementation date of 1st Jan, 2011.
The CPT Category II codes are supplemental tracking codes that can be used for performance measurement. The use of tracking codes for performance measurement will decrease the need for record abstraction and chart review, and thereby minimize administrative burdens on physicians, their staff, and other health care professionals. These codes are intended to facilitate data collection about quality of care by coding certain services and/or test results that support performance measures and that have been agreed upon as contributing to good patient care.
Medical coders and providers should take a note of this update as there are many revisions, significant new codes and deleted codes based on previous updates that AMA has released this year. The major information on CPT Category II code about performance measurement exclusion of modifiers, measures, and the measures’ source(s) is listed below:
Composite measures 0001F-0015F
Patient management 0500F-0575F
Patient history 1000F-1220F
Physical examination 2000F-2050F
Diagnostic/screening processes or results 3006F-3573F
Therapeutic, preventive or other interventions 4000F-4306F
Follow-up or other outcomes 5005F-5100F
Patient safety 6005F-6045F
Structural Measures 7010F-7025F
Source: AMA
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