CPT®: Powerful terminology for health care today and tomorrow
Guided by medical professionals for more than 50 years, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) is the shared language of health care, an essential resource for communicating, understanding and innovating health care utilization.
Advancing CPT
In a transparent and open process, the CPT Editorial Panel updates hundreds of CPT codes each year, guided by a panel of volunteer medical professionals.
Medical coding
CPT coding is essential to the work of health care. Discover the latest code releases, AMA books, events, and resources for the professional coder community.
Developer resources
APIs make the CPT code set available in streamlined ways for healthcare software developers and researchers working on innovations.
An essential standard language
An essential standard language
More than 10,000 CPT codes today serve as the standard language for communicating medical, surgical and diagnostic utilization across health care. These codes are the foundation for how health care procedures are tracked, reimbursed, and studied. The CPT code set is updated frequently throughout the year, in a process that is guided by an independent board of medical professionals.
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CPT codes & the pandemic
CPT codes & the pandemic
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