The American Medical Association (AMA) released the December 2025 CPT® Assistant. The articles offer important insights into select 2026 updates. The articles are now available to subscribers of Code Connect, which is Codify by AAPC by AAPC’s CPT® Assistant search add-on, and to subscribers of the CPT® Advanced Coding Pack.
CPT® Assistant: To find all the articles from Volume 35, Issue 12, subscribers can check for these topics and codes when they log in:
- IRE tumor ablation: 47384, 55877
- Lower esophageal sphincter neurostimulation: 1013T-1018T
- Osteotomy: 27458, 27713
- Scalp-cooling: 97007-97009
The December issue also includes a Questions and Answers section, plus the annual bonus Q&A:
- Cardiovascular system
- Insertion of a transvenous lead pacing the left ventricle: 33225
- Category III
- Platelet rich plasma, tendon fenestration: 23929, 0232T
- Digestive system
- Hernia repair, laparoscopic, open: 49505, 49650
- Evaluation and management
- MDM, scenario: 99204
- Nursing visit: 99211
- Rotator cuff tear, complexity: 99203
- Telemedicine, connection lost
- Telemedicine, synchronous audio-only: 98012-98015
- Eye and ocular adnexa
- Removal nonbiodegradable drug eluting implant without reimplantation: 65920
- Molecular pathology
- Intellectual disability, sequence-level analysis: 81349
- Nervous system
- Adductor canal block: 64447, 64448
- Cryoablation, peripheral nerves: 0440T, 0441T
- Laminectomy, facetectomy, foraminotomy, synovial cyst: 63047, 63267
- Ultrasound-guided dorsal scapular nerve injection: 64450, 76942
- Ophthalmology
- Radiology
- MR safety assessment: 76014, 76015
- Respiratory system
- Urinary system
- Bilateral nephrectomies, transplant one: 50220, 50225, 50230, 50234, 50236, 50365
- Cystogram, existing catheter: 51600, 52