New year brings more than 500 CPT changes
APC Payment Insider, February 1, 2009
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CPT codes face a lengthy list of changes this year. According to the American Academy of Professional Coders, there are 291 additions, 375 revisions, and 95 deletions, and the E/M and medicine sections have changed the most.
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