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Medical professionals rely on a coding system developed by the American Medical Association (AMA) for a standard way to describe procedures used by healthcare providers. The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) list is created and updated by the AMA every year. It is owned entirely by the Association who maintains control of the document in every way. With a copyright on the document, the AMA is .

Current Procedural Terminology codes, commonly called CPT codes, are copyrighted information published by the American Medical Association. Each year, the AMA publishes another book of CPT codes. Many of these codebooks can now be obtained in computerized form in databases or as searchable software. Each CPT code is a five-digit number that signifies a medical procedure or test to determine a diagnosis. Every procedure or test performed by a doctor, nurse, surgeon, pathologist, medical technician, phlebotomist, laboratory technician, counselor/therapist or mental health professional is converted from written narrative form to a numerical or alphanumerical code in order to be submitted on medical claims with simplicity. Some of these codes employ modifiers to affect the usual amount of payment that is associated with a particular code. Medical claims may be submitted by paper or electronic submission.Insurance companies and governmental agencies such as Medicaid, Medicare, and CHAMPUS/Tricare utilize pre-printed medical claims forms, such as the CMS-1500 for private offices and the UB-92 for hospitals and clinics. On these specialized, red-ink OCR forms, such as the CMS-1500, essential demographic data about the patient and his or her insurer, including name, address, status and employment, are typed in the top half of the form. In the bottom half of the form, diagnoses and procedural data are listed, along with dates of illness and hospitalization, procedure prices, assignment acceptance, provider identification, facility location, billing entity identification, laboratory assignment and signatures.While every procedure tends to have its own code, the knowledge about which CPT code to apply to a particular procedure requires some learning. Several agencies offer certification to professional coders, such as the American Health Information Management Association and the American Association of Professional Coders. With certification, a medical biller is more likely to impress prospective employers that he or she knows how to code professionally. Certification also inspires confidence in the clients of billers who go into small businesses for themselves. Please see the links below for more information.