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10/19/2026
Reinforce your coding and billing efforts in 2027: Prepare to welcome nearly 300 new CPT codes across a wide range of services and body systems taking effect Jan. 1. The AMA’s CY 2027 CPT update also contains 74 revised codes and 80 deletions.
10/19/2026
The Secretary of HHS recently suggested that both health providers and their patients use artificial intelligence (AI) for diagnosis and treatment purposes. Some experts think that you should prepare for patients to challenge you to use AI technology — or accept the results from their own use of it — in medical encounters.
10/19/2026
A recent survey suggests that Gen Z health care providers — those 30 and under — are more than willing to jump ship from their present job, which is bad news for practices that want to keep them around. But experts suggest some understanding, and candor, might help keep them on board.
10/19/2026
A nonprofit organization dedicated to health care price transparency advocacy has sued the AMA for the right to publish its CPT code manual for free.
10/19/2026
Care management services under Medicare, including transitional care management (TCM) codes 99495-99496, chronic care management (CCM) codes 99437, 99439, 99487, 99489, 99490 and 99491, and principal care management (PCM) codes 99424-99427, bounced back in 2024 after a COVID-era malaise (PBN 10/27/25). New 2025 Medicare utilization numbers show that the trend is still up and that denials have stabilized.

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