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CPT: The language of medicine
- Shared language of health care
- Innovation facilitation
- Medical coding resources
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Guided by medical professionals for more than 50 years, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) is the shared language of health care, an essential resource for communicating, understanding and innovating health care utilization.
An essential standard language
An essential standard language
More than 10,000 CPT codes today serve as the standard language for communicating medical, surgical and diagnostic utilization across health care. These codes are the foundation for how health care procedures are tracked, reimbursed, and studied. The CPT code set is updated frequently throughout the year, in a process that is guided by an independent board of medical professionals.
CPT codes & the pandemic
CPT codes & the pandemic
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