The 2010 CPT update will be available for export in CCH Coding Comply on October 3. The annual update includes more than 150 new codes. Some of the new codes cover complex cystometrogram (51727-51729), injection(s), diagnostic or therapeutic agent, paravertebral facet (zygapophyseal) joint (or nerves innervating that joint) with image guidance (fluoroscopy or CT), cervical or thoracic (64490-64492), and computed tomographic (CT) colonography, screening, including image postprocessing (74261-74263). Additionally, over 170 codes were modified for 2010.

We recently received the 2010 update files for CPT and are working hard to bring the information to you. Keep checking the MediBlog and CCH and MediRegs What's New publications for information regarding the availability of the 2010 update in our products. Aside from the standard CPT update data, the American Medical Association (AMA) released additional information this year pertaining to H1N1 codes and data structure.

With a May 1st deadline for compliance looming, the American Medical Association (AMA) has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to suspend the application of the Red Flag Rules to physicians and publish a new rule so that physicians have an opportunity to provide comments. In a March 9 letter to the FTC, AMA Executive Vice President Michael D. Maves wrote that the AMA “strongly believes that the FTC did not provide physicians with an opportunity to review and comment on this Rule.”