New billing codes for remote monitoring, care management offer opportunities for 2022

The American Medical Association’s recent release of the 2022 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set offers two areas of particular interest to integrative healthcare practitioners: a new level of remote digital-health monitoring and more accessible care management, coding experts say. The AMA’s panoply of 249 new codes taking effect January 1, 2022 includes five additional codes to report remote therapeutic monitoring, to keep pace with advances in wearable digital medical technology.…