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Everyone’s favorite office procedure, cerumen removal using lavage (69209) made a cameo appearance during the E/M office visit coding presentation during the AMA’s virtual CPT RBRVS Symposium this week.
 
The 2021 fee outlook emerged as a key point of discussion at the American Medical Association's (AMA) annual conference, with officials from the AMA and CMS offering divergent signals on what the scope of payment change may look like come Jan. 1.
 
 
While the world waits on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, a CPT code update containing a suite of six vaccine product and administration codes offers reason to ready your claims reporting systems.
 
 
You can add two new codes to your COVID-19 response kit, with the added bonus that the codes are applicable for seasonal flu testing as well.
 
 
You can complement your COVID-19 coding arsenal with two new additions -- testing code 86413 and extra services code 99072 -- as the AMA continues to build out its CPT code set in response to the ongoing public health emergency (PHE).
 

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