On December 1, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its annual update to the Designated Health Services (DHS) code list (“DHS List”). A 30-day comment period for the ...
AMA Updates CPT Category II Code List The American Medical Association has released an update to the CPT Category II code list. The update contains many revisions, significant new codes and deleted ...
The American Medical Association has released new medical codes for 2026 amid a growing debate about whether the medical group may have too much influence over the healthcare coding system. The AMA ...
The American Medical Association released its updated list of Current Procedural Terminology codes for 2025, adding 270 new universal codes used for billing healthcare services and reimbursing ...
1. The annual update to the CPT code set created 349 editorial changes, including 230 additions, 49 deletions and 70 revisions. 2. AMA now offers Spanish language descriptors for more than 11,000 ...
In 2026, medical coding saw two defining changes: the addition of 288 CPT/HCPCS codes that formalize billing for emerging AI and digital health services, and an April ICD-10-CM update that overhauled ...
ICD-10-CM codes contain 3–7 characters, with the first character alpha, the second numeric, and the remaining characters alphanumeric. They are organized in a Tabular List by body system or condition, ...