The AMA today voted for a two-year grace period to protect physicians from penalties they may be hit with after rolling out the ICD-10 medical coding system, which is currently federally mandated ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) released new evaluation and management (E/M) coding guidelines that will be included in the 2023 CPT manual and take effect January 1, 2023.

While primarily a physician association, the AMA offers benefits to coders and other medical professionals, including access to events, continuing education and tools that address coding inquiries ...

The American Medical Association published a checklist to help physician practices adhere to new changes for coding and documenting evaluation/management office visits.

The American Medical Association's CPT Editorial Panel at its February meeting approved technical corrections to the E/M coding guidelines for outpatient visits.

The American Medical Association announced a few technical corrections to the 2013 and 2014 CPT codes, according to AAPC. 2014 corrections to make note of in the codebook include: • Code 43238 – ...

The American Medical Association’s (AMA's) ... The coding panel met May 9-11 in Chicago for its tri-annual discussion of CPT code change applications submitted by outside parties.

Earlier this month, an American Medical Association-anointed panel was set to consider proposed changes that would have simplified and broadened applicability of billing codes governing wearables ...

Medical billing and coding are essential in healthcare, according to Dr. Lynn Ward, health information management (HIM) program director at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). These health ...

The median annual medical billing and coding salary exceeds $47,000, making this field a plausible pathway into the middle class even for individuals without college degrees. However, medical ...