Current Procedural Terminology, perhaps better known by its abbreviation “CPT,” is the coding system the medical field uses to document healthcare services during a procedure. This system is extensive ...

Value-focused patient care is transforming medical practice. As rising healthcare costs in the United States challenge the widely used fee-for-service architecture, innovative, patient-centered care ...

In 2016 Medicare introduced advance care planning Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to reimburse clinicians for time spent providing the service. Despite recent increases, use of these codes ...

Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a single modern procedure coding system to eliminate excess costs and lower ...

The doctors’ association is blowing up the U.S.’ decades-old coding system for recording pregnancy services and starting fresh next year, bowing to calls from OB-GYNs and other maternity specialists.

Grace Kuo, the only pharmacist on staff at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said that the physician-pharmacist collaborative practice protocol under which she sees patients would have to change ...

Physicians who use the Practice Fusion electronic medical record (EMR) will have to pay separately for CPT code licensing fees next year -- and there has been confusion over the price. CPT codes are ...