At the Special Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates, physicians adopted policies to address social determinants of health as part of health insurance coverage. The disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the need to address nonmedical, yet critical, health needs and the underlying determinants of health —
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The AMA published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes new code additions and editorial revisions for reporting medical services sparked by the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first major overhaul in more than 25 years to the codes and guidelines for office and other outpatient evaluation and management services was included in the release of the 2021 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set published by the American Medical Association.
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