Practicefirst would like to notify its clients of AMA’s Errata and Technical corrections in CPT 2021. The effective date for the errata/technical corrections is January 1, 2021. The following areas in CPT 2021 have been impacted by these changes.
Time: Add new bulleted list to clarify use of the Office or Other Outpatient Services codes 99202-99215 in the E/M Time subsection.
Services Reported Separately: Revise guideline to clarify use of the Office or Other Outpatient Services codes 99202-99215 in the E/M Services Reported Separately subsection.
Guidelines for Office or Other Outpatient E/M Services:
Immunization Administration for Vaccines/Toxoids: Revise guideline to replace code 90749 with code 90756 to update the vaccine code range
Cardiovascular- Cardiac Catheterization: Revise page number from “682” to “746” in the guidelines of the Medicine Cardiac Catheterization subsection.
Revise the medium descriptor data file for codes 29806 and 80189.
Revise the medium descriptor data file for code 80189.
Revise the medium descriptor data file to add a space after “AQT” and “RESPIR” for code 87426 and denote “T” to “E” for publication errata.
We encourage our clients to visit the following page to read the errata/technical corrections in its entirety. https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-12/cpt-corrections-errata-2021.pdf
For Coding questions, please contact our Coding Managers, Vidya Baliga at vidyab@pracfirst.com and Kelly Cole at kellyc@pracfirst.com or at 716-389-3262.