CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY

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                    Medical Coding is converting a diagnosis or symptoms, procedures, and drugs into codes and Medical billing is billing insurance companies and patients for procedures and office visits. Their work is submitted to insurance companies for payment purposes, data collection, research, billing and quality improvement purposes. 

CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY

                                   (CPT)

Medical coding is the transformation of healthcare diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment into universal medical alphanumeric codes. A medical coder is responsible for assigning the correct code to describe the type of service a patient will receive. medical coding involves mainly 3 types of coding. CPT, ICD, HCPCS.   Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) is a medical code set that is used to report medical, surgical, and diagnostic procedures and services to entities such as physicians, health insurance companies, and accreditation organizations. These codes are utilized to communicate with: other physicians, hospitals, and insurers for claims processing. There are three categories of CPT Codes: Category I, Category II, and Category III.

Types of CPT Coding

Category 1 codes are broken down into six sections:

• evaluation and management
• anesthesiology
• surgery
• radiology
• pathology and laboratory
• medicine

Category 2: Clinical Laboratory Services

The Category 2 CPT medical code set consists of the supplementary tracking codes that are used for performance measures and are intended to help collect information about the quality of care delivered. The use of this medical code set is optional and is not a substitute for Category 1 codes.

Category 3: Emerging technologies, services and procedures

The Category 3 CPT code list consists of temporary codes that cover emerging technologies, services and procedures. They differ from the Category 1 medical CPT codes list in that they identify services that may not be widely performed by healthcare professionals, may not have FDA approval and also may not have proven clinical efficacy. To be eligible, the service or procedure must be involved in ongoing and planned research. The purpose of these CPT codes is to help researchers track emerging technologies and services.

The American Medical Association released updates Sept. 1 to its Current Procedural Terminology code set for 2021.

Six things to know about the changes:

1. The AMA has made 329 changes to the 2021 CPT Codes set, including 206 new codes, 54 deletions and 69 revisions. The changes will take effect Jan. 1, 2021.
2. Among the changes in 2021 are CPT Codes and guidelines for office and other outpatient evaluation and management services. The AMA said it is the first major overhaul in more than 25 years to the E/M office visit coding and documentation AMA said the changes aim to make coding and documentation for the visits simpler.
3. Some of the E/M office visit code changes include eliminating history and physician exam as elements for code selection, permitting code level selection based on medical decision-making and adding more detail to the CPT code descriptors to promote payer consistency.
4. The AMA also added CPT codes that are related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The code set was modified with several code additions and revisions that were approved for immediate use and published in the 2021 code set.
5. The AMA added eight codes to improve documentation for continuous cardiac monitoring and detection, which will replace four codes that have been deleted.
6. In addition, there are new and revised CPT codes to enhance screening and care of patients with diabetes.

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