AMA Announces 2014 CPT Code Enhancements
AMA Announces 2014 CPT Code Enhancements
According to the article, “AMA Announces 2014 CPT Code Enhancements” by Robert J. Mills, Robert Mills stated that the 2014 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) has been updated to include advancements in health care technology. The new CPT code set is available now, and should be used for claims beginning with the date of service January 1, 2014. “The latest annual changes…ensure the code set can fulfill its vital role as the health system's common language for reporting contemporary medical procedures,” AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, said in a news release. There are 335 CPT code changes that reflect recent developments in surgical, medical, and diagnostic services. First, approximately twenty-five percent of the changes occur in the gastroenterology section. This follows a two-year effort to accurately reflect improvements in endoscopy devices, procedures and techniques. The advancements include miniaturization, powerful optical magnification and new imaging technologies that lead to minimally invasive upper gastrointestinal endoscopic surgical procedures. Second, the section on molecular pathology, which focuses on the progress, development, and evolution of diseases on the molecular level, has an additional 316 tests within the CPT code descriptors. Molecular pathology is used to identify genetic disease indicators, somatic disorders and germlines to the nine molecular pathology resource based Tier II codes. In addition, the 2014 code set also includes new and revised codes for breast biopsies and imaging, multi-system image guided catheter drainage; cardiology and vascular embolization procedures.
For 2014, 335 changes are occurring, many across endoscopy codes. The Endoscopy section has undergone substantial changes, with codes divided into three subsections: Esophagoscopy (43191-43233), Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) (43235-43259), and Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
According to the article, “AMA Announces 2014 CPT Code Enhancements” by Robert J. Mills, Robert Mills stated that the 2014 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) has been updated to include advancements in health care technology. The new CPT code set is available now, and should be used for claims beginning with the date of service January 1, 2014. “The latest annual changes…ensure the code set can fulfill its vital role as the health system's common language for reporting contemporary medical procedures,” AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, said in a news release. There are 335 CPT code changes that reflect recent developments in surgical, medical, and diagnostic services. First, approximately twenty-five percent of the changes occur in the gastroenterology section. This follows a two-year effort to accurately reflect improvements in endoscopy devices, procedures and techniques. The advancements include miniaturization, powerful optical magnification and new imaging technologies that lead to minimally invasive upper gastrointestinal endoscopic surgical procedures. Second, the section on molecular pathology, which focuses on the progress, development, and evolution of diseases on the molecular level, has an additional 316 tests within the CPT code descriptors. Molecular pathology is used to identify genetic disease indicators, somatic disorders and germlines to the nine molecular pathology resource based Tier II codes. In addition, the 2014 code set also includes new and revised codes for breast biopsies and imaging, multi-system image guided catheter drainage; cardiology and vascular embolization procedures.
For 2014, 335 changes are occurring, many across endoscopy codes. The Endoscopy section has undergone substantial changes, with codes divided into three subsections: Esophagoscopy (43191-43233), Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) (43235-43259), and Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)