CMS seeks public feedback on 'AMA's monopoly over CPT-4 licenses'

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has joined lawmakers who have questioned the role of the American Medical Association's (AMA's) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) in government hea | The agency joins prominent Republican lawmakers in scrutinizing the government's decades-long reliance on the physician association's proprietary coding system, and said it believes a divorce would not run afoul of statute.