Three times a year, AMA opens a webpage that holds calendars and agendas for its upcoming CPT meeting. The webpage for the May 12-24, 2022, CPT meeting in Chicago is open.
As usually, the first item to go up is a posting of the Lab CPT submissions for comment and review. These are posted March 4, and commenters may request to review a packet til March 11, and must turn in comments by March 30 )[per handout]. This allows to be reviewed by internal working groups (MPAG for molecular tests and PCC for lab & pathology stakeholders as a whole).
All the other non-pathology codes will be posted for comment in a few weeks.
Main web page for Chicago meeting here:
https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/cpt/cpt-may-2022-editorial-panel-meeting
[Note, March 8, morning, as I write this, AMA has opened the registration process, but it's not showing up at this hour yet on the webpage.] The registration pathway is open and it's set up for either "virtual" or "in person" registration for May 12-14, 2022. (The meetings are always scheduled Thurs-Saturday but rarely require Saturday.)
Lab tests with new or revised coding proposals include:
- Actin
- AQP4 antibodies
- Gadolinium
- Cytogenomics/optical genome mapping
- Hep B quant assay
- MOG-IG1 (multi code set)
- MAAA tumor methylation classifier (CNS)
- Respiratory Patho\ogens (editorial revisions)
- Tick-borne organisms (code set)
- MAAA-cfDNA for HPV'