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.
AMA’s CPT 2027 Professional Edition code book delivers coding guidance to health care professionals with a precise, up-to-date foundation for how health care procedures are tracked, reimbursed and studied.
Key features included in the 2027 edition of CPT Professional:
- 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.
- Quick Navigation & Learning: Features like comprehensive indexes, detailed anatomical illustrations (now expanded for diversity), and clear tables of contents mean you can locate relevant CPT codes faster.
- 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.
- Reliable Updates: Stay current with the latest additions, deletions, and revisions to codes, so you can adapt quickly to annual changes without needing to compare or consult past publications.
The CPT 2027 Professional Edition equips health care professionals with a trusted, comprehensive resource for compliant, effective, and equitable coding in today’s health care environment.
Put the official CPT code guidelines at your fingertips with additional features:
The CPT 2027 Professional Edition code book covers thousands of CPT codes, guidelines and various features:
- CPT Changes, CPT Assistant, and Clinical Examples in Radiology citations — provides cross-referenced information to popular AMA resources that enhance your understanding of the CPT code set.
- 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, including deletion of the current global maternity care codes and addition of new coding guidance for reporting antepartum and postpartum care, as well as new CPT codes for labor management and delivery care and other obstetric services.
- Behavioral Health: Review six new CPT codes, eight revised codes, updated tables, and new coding tips to help report adaptive behavior assessment and treatment more clearly, including non-face-to-face services.
- 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 for reporting head and neck magnetic resonance angiography services.
- Sleep Medicine : Includes six new codes for reporting unattended sleep studies, along with new guidelines and accompanying examples.
The CPT 2027 Professional Edition spiral code book features the following enhancements:
- A comprehensive index — locate CPT codes related to a specific procedure, service, anatomic site, condition, synonym, eponym or abbreviation quickly.
- Anatomical, body systems and procedural illustrations — help improve CPT coding accuracy and comprehension of the anatomy, body systems and services/procedures discussed. For 2027, three new illustrations will be added to help differentiate simple, intermediate, and complex wound repair via images in the code set.
- Overall code book table of contents — enables a quick search of the entire code book’s content for quick access.
- Section tables of contents — provide a helpful tool to navigate effectively and quickly through each section’s subsections and their CPT codes.
- Complete list of the additions, deletions and revisions for 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
- A list of artificial intelligence (AI) taxonomy for medical services and procedures described in the CPT code set, classifying these codes into the following categories:
- Clinician-to-patient services (e.g., visits)
- Clinician-to-clinician services (e.g., consultations)
- Patient monitoring
- Digital diagnostic services
- Guidance for classifying various AI applications (e.g., expert systems, machine learning, algorithm-based services) into assistive, augmentative, or autonomous service categories
- CPT codes used for synchronous, real-time, interactive, audio-only telemedicine services
- 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.
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