Fierce Healthcare May 17, 2024
Emma Beavins

The American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Panel, which is responsible for creating medical billing codes, again forfeited an opportunity to move forward with remote patient monitoring billing code reform, three sources told Fierce Healthcare. One source considers the changes “dead.”

The coding panel met May 9-11 in Chicago for its tri-annual discussion of CPT code change applications submitted by outside parties. For several consecutive meetings, the panel has received code change applications to change a portion of remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring codes.

If the panel agrees to a code, it gets priced by AMA’s Specialty Society RVU committee. The codes can then be used by insurers and providers.

In its past several meetings, the code change...

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