The CPT® 2027 Professional Edition, authored by the American Medical Association (AMA), provides health care professionals with the uniform language needed for coding medical services and procedures using the latest Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes, guidelines, and updates. Additional highlights include:
Accurate Coding & Billing:CPT 2027 Professional Edition offers coding guidance on how to select the correct CPT codes with confidence.
Authoritative Guidance: Exclusive AMA content includes official guidelines, summaries of CPT code changes, and citations of code related articles from resources like CPT® Assistant and Clinical Examples in Radiology, so you can stay up to date on coding for new or revised procedures.
Advance in Health Equity: Enhanced with new, inclusive medical illustrations, CPT 2027 Professional Edition reflects best practices and helps health care professionals represent a diverse patient population in documentation.
Supports Advanced Technology Reporting: Includes AI taxonomy, telemedicine codes, and appendices to help you properly report emerging digital health services.
LATEST UPDATES
The latest updates aim to enhance clarity, accuracy, and specificity in medical reporting across a broad range of specialties:
Evaluation and Management: Includes revisions to Care Management Services codes to enhance accuracy when reporting these services.
Hernia Repair: Explore nine new CPT codes added to report open, laparoscopic, and thoracoscopic diaphragmatic hernia repair procedures.
Obstetrics: Extensive revisions to the long-standing maternity care and delivery services section.
Behavioral Health: Review six new CPT codes, eight revised codes, updated tables, and new coding tips.
Biofeedback: Explore new guidelines to help navigate defining contemporary biofeedback practices.
Radiology: Learn about the three new Category I CPT codes, six revised codes and a new table.
Sleep Medicine: Includes six new codes, new guidelines and accompanying examples.
A comprehensive index ― locate CPT codes related to a specific procedure, service, anatomic site, condition, synonym, eponym or abbreviation quickly.
Complete list of the additions, deletions and revisionsfor codes and code descriptors ― provides a summary and quick reference of the changes in the 2027 code set without the need to compare past publications.
Multiple appendices ― provide supplemental information regarding:
Modifiers
Add-on codes
Images of vascular families
Re-sequenced codes
MAAAs and PLA services.
Guidance for classifying various AI applications (e.g., expert systems, machine learning, algorithm-based services) into assistive, augmentative, or autonomous service categories
Commonly used E/M code selection tables ― aid health care professionals in assigning the most appropriate and commonly used evaluation and management CPT codes.
Notes pages ― found at the end of most sections and subsections.