CPT 2026 Professional Edition with CPT QuickRef App

The CPT QuickRef app and its Premium Content (2026 code set information & CPT Assistant articles) are accessible on iOS and Android mobile devices by scanning a QR code affixed to the back cover of the code book when purchasing this package.

Coding & Billing Pack and CPT Assistant Archive are premium app content, offered at a savings of $70.00 when buying this CPT 2026 Professional Edition and CPT QuickRef package!

This fully loaded, award-winning * CPT QuickRef app combines the best of AMA’s CPT content with billing tools to help improve the accuracy and efficiency of the work you perform! The best print and digital sources for every CPT coding decision can be found in this new package that includes one spiralbound copy of the CPT 2026 Professional Edition (see full book features below) and free access to all premium content available in the fully-loaded version of CPT QuickRef app.

Put the CPT code set at your fingertips with additional resources found in the CPT QuickRef app:

• Up to 7 years of CPT Codes — Use the Coding & Billing Pack on your mobile device to search and browse all CPT codes and descriptors from 2019-2026, complete with applicable modifiers, illustrations, and CPT Assistant citations when codes are described in newsletter articles, and both global and GPCI-specific cost information (Coding & Billing Pack per year needed to access).
• CPT Assistant Archive — Access the full content of all CPT Assistant articles (1990-2025).
• E/M Wizard — Quickly determine the appropriate evaluation and management code based on visit documentation using AMA evaluation & management (E/M) Guidelines and E/M categories.
• CPT Coding Guidelines — official coding guidelines from the CPT Editorial Panel.
• CPT Vignettes — describe code use with clinical examples.
• 2025 and 2026 RVUs — relative value units for Medicare reimbursement including Physician Work, Practice Expense, and Professional Liability Insurance according to your GPCI.

Features of the CPT QuickRef app with PREMIUM content also include:

• Updated E/M Wizard – New 2026 guidelines for coding E/M services using either time or medical decision making (MDM).
• The latest information — Receive updates from the cloud when new RVUs and proprietary laboratory analysis (PLA) codes are released or when technical corrections are made to 2026 CPT codes.
• Favorites — Select the codes you use most and save them to your favorites list.
• Facility and non-facility RVUs — Use federal data on facility and non-facility work and practice expense values.
• GPCIs — Set your region’s geographic practice cost index to calculate accurate Medicare payment for each procedure.
• Global days — Reference the number of global days CMS assigns to a given procedure.
• Color illustrations — Better understand complex procedures with AMA-created illustrations.
• Clear references to CPT Assistant articles — Quick view of article titles and year of publication
• Improved search – Enter the first 3 or more digits of a CPT code to get suggested matches.
• Past year’s CPT codes – Upgrade to the multi-year option for the code set years of 2019-2026 for auditing and other reference.
• Improved home screen – New home screen with improved navigation.

* The CPT QuickRef app won the Digital Health Awards Bronze Medal in the Fall of 2019 for best health-related mobile app.

These are the features and benefits of the CPT 2026 Professional Edition code book included in this package:

CPT 2026 Professional Edition is the definitive AMA-authored resource to help healthcare professionals correctly report and bill medical procedures and services. Healthcare professionals want accurate reimbursement. Payers want efficient claims processing. Correct reporting and billing of medical procedures and services begins with CPT 2026 Professional Edition from American Medical Association.

New illustrations added to the 2026 edition of CPT Professional:

• Anatomical and procedural illustrations — help improve coding accuracy and understanding of the anatomy and services/procedures discussed. For 2026, two new illustrations will be added to the code set. One will reflect modern medical practice in laparoscopy procedures, and the other to highlight the definition of each of the major coronary segments of the heart.
• Diversity-related illustrations — 19 more illustration continue advancing inclusive and equitable representation of a diverse range of skin tones, body shapes and sizes, ages, and genders.

Put the official CPT code guidelines at your fingertips with additional resources:

• A comprehensive index — locate codes related to a specific procedure, service, anatomic site, condition, synonym, eponym or abbreviation quickly.
• Enhanced code book table of contents — enable a quick search of the code book’s content for quick access.
• Complete list of the additions, deletions and revisions for CPT codes and code descriptors — Provide a summary and quick reference of the changes in the 2026 CPT code set without comparing editions.
• Comprehensive E/M code selection tables — aid physicians and coders in assigning the most appropriate evaluation and management codes.

Only the AMA, with the help of physicians and other experts in the healthcare community, creates and maintains the Current Procedural Terminology, CPT code set. No other code book has the accurate, complete official guidelines for the latest and current procedural terminology for procedures and services to help you code medical services and procedures properly.

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Get hundreds of code, guideline, and text changes for the year — including new diversity-related illustrations.

Recognizing that racism is a threat to the advancement of health equity and a barrier to appropriate medical care, as well as the power of images in contributing and limiting what bodies physicians, medical professionals, and students learn to see and define as normal and standard, the CPT 2026 Professional Edition will continue to enhance inclusivity by featuring 19 more diversity-related illustrations to counter a deep-seated, culturally, and systemically biased norm. These diversity-related images continue advancing inclusive and equitable representation of a diverse range of skin tones, body shapes and sizes, ages, and genders in our medical educational resources for everyone who uses this CPT code book in their daily work, practice, and education.

The CPT 2026 Professional Edition spiral code book features the following enhancements:

• CPT Changes, CPT Assistant, and Clinical Examples in Radiology citations — provides cross-referenced information in popular AMA resources that can enhance your understanding of the CPT code set.
• Coding tips throughout each section — improve understanding of the nuances of the code set.
• Multiple appendices — offer additional information for modifiers; add-on codes; images of vascular families; re-sequenced codes, MAAAs and PLA services, list of artificial intelligence (AI) taxonomy for medical services and procedures described in the code set and classifying those codes into discrete categories of clinician-to-patient services (e.g., visit), clinician-to-clinician services (e.g., consultation), patient monitoring and digital diagnostic services; guidance for classifying various AI applications (e.g., expert systems, machine learning, algorithm-based services) for medical services and procedures into assistive, augmentative, and autonomous categories; and codes used for synchronous real-time interactive audio-only telemedicine services.
• Section-specific table of contents — provide a useful tool to navigate effectively and quickly through each section’s codes.
• Notes pages at the end of every code set section and subsection

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