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New process takes AMA Guides into the future

AMA Guides Editorial Panel process will help ensure collaboration among stakeholders and the best possible information for making impairment evaluations.

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Medicare pay should recognize value of surgeons' office visits

The AMA will take a deeper dive into one aspect of the proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Medicare & Medicaid
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Aug. 8, 2019: Advocacy spotlight on Medicare pay should recognize value of surgeons' office visits

The AMA is hard at work developing educational materials to describe the revised CPT office visit codes and documentation guidelines.

Advocacy Update
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Oct. 4, 2018: National Advocacy Update

Doctor office drug compounding oversight, OPPS and ASC proposed rule and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Aug. 9, 2018: National Advocacy Update

PFS and QPP proposed rule and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Help create CPT® Proprietary Laboratory Analyses codes

Learn how members of the PLA Technical Advisory Group (PLA-TAG) play a crucial role in the PLA code creation process.

CPT® Editorial Panel
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Video: How payment codes help improve hospital readmission rates

Updating code sets so physicians can be paid for new models of care could be a “game-changer” in improving hospital readmission rates, according to one physician at the forefront of these changes.David Ellington, MD, a family physician from Virginia and a member of the CPT® Editorial Panel, explains the process behind code development and how the panel is facilitating innovations in medicine.

CPT® Editorial Panel
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Lifecycle of a code: How the CPT® and RUC process works

Clinicians should have a say in how medical nomenclature is created and how services are valued—after all, physicians and other qualified health care professionals are the ones directly responsible for providing patient care.

CPT® Editorial Panel