The American Medical Association (AMA) released the January 2025 CPT® Assistant. The issue provides AMA’s assessment of Medicare physician payment and similar policies for 2025. The issue also provides coding guidance on new 2025 codes, including procedure descriptions and clinical examples.
To find all the articles from Volume 35, Issue 1, subscribers to Code Connect — Codify by AAPC’s CPT® Assistant search add-on — can check for these topics and codes when they log in:
- Medicare physician payment, RBRVS, 2025: 98000-98015, G0011-G0013, G0537-G0544, G0552-G0554, G0556-G0558, G0560, G2012, G2211
- Optical coherence tomography: 92132-92134, 92137
- Transcatheter therapeutic drug delivery, intracoronary: 0913T, 0914T
- Transcranial Doppler study: 93896-93898
The January issue also includes a Questions and Answers section covering these topics and codes:
- Cardiovascular:
- Baffle leak closure: 93580
- Catheterization, after procedure, abnormal native connection: 93593-93597
- Venography, collateral: 93587, 93588
- Digestive:
- Angiodysplasia of the intestine, endoscopy: 44366, 44360, 44369, 44799
- Evaluation and management (E/M):
- Prescription drug management, sample drug
- Eye, ocular adnexa:
- Trabecular meshwork micro-bypass glaucoma stent, gonioscopy: 66991
- Home health:
- Mechanical ventilation care, nonphysician: 99504
- Musculoskeletal:
- Total knee arthroplasty, revision, poly exchange: 27486, 52
- Radiology:
- Dual-energy computed tomography, gout: 73700
- Respiratory:
- Eloesser flap closure: 32036, 32810