AMA Releases CPT® 2024 Code Set
The American Medical Association (AMA) released the 2024 CPT® code set on September 8, 2023. In response to requests by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to clarify the reporting of evaluation and management (E/M) services, the 2024 code set provides revisions to E/M services including:
- Removal of time ranges from office or other outpatient visit codes (99202-99205, 99212-99215) and aligned the format with other E/M codes;
- A definition to determine the “substantive portion” of a split/shared E/M visit in which a physician and a non-physician practitioner work jointly to furnish all the work related to the visit; and
- Instructions for reporting hospital inpatient or observation care services and admission and discharge services for the use of codes 99234-99236 when the patient stay crosses over two calendar dates for other than outpatient and office encounters, as well as several other highly anticipated changes.
In addition, the AMA now offers Spanish language descriptors for more than 11,000 medical procedures and services. These descriptors were added to the 2024 CPT® code set.
A total of 11,163 codes are available for 2024. 349 editorial changes were made for the 2024 code set, including 230 new codes, 49 deletions, and 70 revisions. According to the AMA, “the CPT code set continues to grow and evolve with the rapid pace of innovation in medical science and health technology.”
