Medical Assistants | American Medical Association
2024年11月26日 · Medical assistants (MA) are a vital part of many medical practices. Under the direction and supervision of a qualified physician, MAs perform a variety of administrative and clinical tasks which help to ease physician workload and improve quality of care. The AMA has articles on all aspects of hiring, retaining and optimizing the work of qualified medical assistants for your practice.
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CPT® Professional Edition. Only the AMA, with the help of physicians and other health care experts, create and maintain the CPT code set. And only CPT® Professional Edition can provide the official guidelines to code medical services and procedures properly. Users can also request a CPT Data File license, which makes it easy to import codes …
CPT® Evaluation and Management (E/M) revisions FAQs
Q. The physician sees an established patient, who has uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), with hyper- and hypoglycemic episodes. Depending on where this falls under the number of complexity and problems addressed in medical decision making (MDM), would it be appropriate to report a higher-level evaluation and management (E/M) code (e.g., 99214 or 99215)?
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2023年12月27日 · Inpatient and observation care services. Deletion of observation CPT codes (99217-99220, 99224-99226) and merged into the existing hospital care CPT codes (99221, 99222, 99223, 99221-99233, 99238-99239).; Editorial revisions to the code descriptors to reflect the structure of total time on the date of the encounter or level of medical decision-making when selecting code level.
2021年4月7日 · The structure of the vaccines section of CPT was modified to accommodate COVID-19 vaccine product and immunization administration codes. • For immunization administration other than COVID-19, codes 90460–90474 are reported for the administration of the vaccine, along with the appropriate vaccine/toxoid code (90476– 90756) targeting
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CPT® overview and code approval - American Medical Association
Designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as a national coding set for physician and other health care professional services and procedures, CPT’s evidence-based codes accurately encompass the full range of health care services.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) - American Medical Association
3 天之前 · An electronic health record (EHR) digitizes a patient’s paper chart. It collects the patient’s history of conditions, tests and treatments and can be used to create a more holistic view of the patient’s care. A medical EHR also improves upon paper by making the patient’s information available instantly and securely to an authorized user. But for all these advantages, EHRs can create ...
Health Care Definitions - American Medical Association
2025年1月10日 · The Health Care Definitions series seeks to answer some of the most asked questions about medical and health care related terms in succinct and clear language. Using a “What is…” format, each page in the series covers a specific term or topic, providing health care professionals, medical students and policymakers with the latest medical research and scientific resources to better ...
4 Modifier 93 (in effect as of Jan. 1, 2023) may be used for reporting audio-only services when appended with Modifier 93. Procedures on this list involve electronic communication using interactive telecommunications equipment that includes, at a minimum, audio.