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Learn what’s new in the CPT^® code book for 2021.  This high-level overview will provide a summary of the changes in store for your practice. Now that the code sets are active, it is important for practices to dive in, and see what’s deleted, changed and added. This webinar will provide only a high level, concise review of changes to codes 99202–99215. 

Participants will learn which specialties will see the most changes and how to tell at a glance if their specialty will have many or few changes.  This session will review the key symbols CPT^® uses and describe the information a practice can know from these.

What’s new this year? Besides the long-anticipated changes to the office/outpatient codes, there is a new prolonged services code and changes to the rules for existing prolonged care. Coding for chronic care management is updated, again. The definitions for breast surgery are revised, new codes in the cardiovascular surgical section, and revisions in diagnostic or therapeutic somatic nerve injections. The medicine section has new codes for audiology and external ECG testing.

Have your CPT^® book handy for this webinar.

After the seminar, participants will be able to:

• Define the symbols CPT^® uses to indicate new and changed codes
• Identify new codes, if any, that the practice will use
• Explain the source documentation for coding changes

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The teaching physician rules provide payment to an attending physician for services performed jointly by an attending and a resident. CMS updated these rules significantly in 2019 and 2020. This webinar will describe the changes to documenting E/M services and in using notes documented by students. It will also review the rules for minor and major surgical procedures, endoscopy, critical care and psychiatry. The webinar will briefly describe temporary rules in place during the public health emergency.

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify who may document the attending’s participation for E/M services
• Describe what the attending must document to use documentation by students
• Delineate required documentation for major and minor procedures

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2021 brings a new CPT prolonged services codes for use only with 99205 and 99215 and changes the rules for face-to-face prolonged care codes 99354, 99355 and non-face-to-face prolonged care codes 99358, 99359. Complicating the use of the new CPT prolonged services code is that CMS is proposing different time thresholds than those published in the draft CPT document. This webinar will describe how to use the new prolonged services codes, show the time thresholds published (as of the date of the webinar) by CPT and CMS and describe the changes to the existing face-to-face and non-face-to-face prolonged care codes

After the webinar participants will be able to:

• Use the new, 15-minute prolonged care code with 99205 and 99215
• Describe the coding rule changes to existing prolonged care codes 99354, 99455, 99358, 99359
• Know when to use office and outpatient visit codes without an add-on prolonged care code, based on time

p.s. What is the new CPT prolonged services code? We’ll find out when we get the 2021 CPT book. Right now, CPT and CMS are using a placeholder code, 99XXX.