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 ...

This Becker’s Podcast episode dives into updates to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set for 2025. Coding experts, Elaine Dunn and Jessica Edmiston from nimble solutions, a leading ...

5. Pain management injection codes. The AMA has also started adding fluoroscopy into the primary portion of the pain management injection CPT codes, so just like the facet injections, coders can no ...

An easy-to-code carpal tunnel release is often coded incorrectly using CPT 64721 (open approach), when the procedure was actually done endoscopically. The endoscopic approach is coded using CPT 29848.

Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a ...

Remember that physician who wanted to develop a Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for prior authorizations? It hasn't happened yet, but he hasn't given up on it, either. In May, Alex ...

CPT codes for spine surgery may not always fit circumstances, and in some cases this prompts calls for reforms. One of those codes, CPT 62380 has the attention of some spine surgeons. The code, for ...