Medical Economics September 8, 2023
Jeffrey Bendix

Updated code set is first to include descriptions of procedures and services in Spanish

Consolidated codes for reporting current COVID-19 immunizations, provisional codes for forthcoming monovalent vaccines, and codes for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) immunizations are among the features of the American Medical Association’s 2024 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set unveiled today.

In all, the 2024 code set includes 230 additions, 49 deletions and 70 revisions among its 11,163 codes according to an AMA news release.

The 2024 version will also be the first to offer Spanish language descriptors for medical procedures and services. “Providing approximately 41 million Spanish speaking individuals in the United States with an easy-to-understand description of medical procedures and services can help build a more...

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