CPT® workgroups and committees
Digital Medicine Coding Committee
The CPT Editorial Panel created the Digital Medicine Coding Committee in 2024. The committee’s charge is to respond to requests from the Panel and to support the Panel on coding issues that involve or may include a digital medicine and/or an artificial intelligence component by providing or obtaining expertise or advice on a specific subject matter. At all times, the Panel shall have the sole authority to create, revise and update codes, descriptions and applicable guidelines for appropriate CPT coding.
The CPT Editorial Panel continues to evolve its thinking on artificial intelligence and strives to better accommodate the evolving role of advanced digital technologies in health care.
- In response, the Panel’s Digital Medicine Coding Committee (DMCC) has been working to develop a coding solution. The potential new category of CPT code would be a mechanism to codify algorithmic analysis of clinically relevant patient data (e.g., biophysical signals, imaging data, lab results) to produce clinically meaningful output or conclusions that impact patient care.
- This framework is still under development and is tentatively titled Clinically Meaningful Algorithmic Analyses (CMAA).
- The DMCC is actively seeking stakeholder feedback to ensure the structure is clinically relevant, scalable and aligned with current health care delivery and payment models.
Each stakeholder listening session will allow for stakeholder comments. We cannot guarantee that everyone will have time to speak during these open comment sections, but it is our intent to hear all perspectives. Attendees must register for each virtual meeting and participants will be held to the CPT confidentiality policy (PDF).
To support the Panel’s work, the AMA will host a hybrid meeting on Dec. 8 in Chicago to discuss coding and payment considerations for clinical AI-enabled and other algorithmic services. Register for the meeting. Deadline for in-person registration is Monday, Nov. 14.
Maternity Care Services Workgroup
A code change application was submitted and approved by the CPT Editorial Panel at the September 2025 meeting. This workgroup has an official sunset date of Oct. 1, 2025.
The CPT Editorial Panel created the Maternity Care Services Workgroup as a result of a code change application from the February 2024 Panel meeting.
The workgroup’s charge was to assess the current practice of maternity care including antepartum care, labor management, delivery and postpartum services to bring forth a code change application with suggested changes to existing codes. The workgroup also proposed new codes which reflected the current practice of medicine while aligning with the rules, guidelines and conventions of the current CPT code set, and meeting the needs of all stakeholders.
Each public call allowed for time at the end for stakeholder comments. We could not guarantee that there was time for everyone to speak during these open comment sections, but it was our intent to hear all perspectives.
Neurostimulator Workgroup
In October 2025 the CPT Panel chair approved the formation of a multi-specialty workgroup to address the growing concerns of neurostimulator coding.
The charge of this workgroup is to evaluate and clarify the CPT coding structure for neurostimulator systems by addressing stakeholder concerns and potential gaps in current guidance to achieve consistent application of the definitions across services currently provided by physicians. The group will assess whether new codes or revisions are needed to address confusion around physician work related to integrated and non-integrated systems.
Currently there is a call out for nominations to all CPT Editorial Panel Advisory Committee specialty societies and the workgroup is hoping to launch on or before Dec. 15, 2025. Open stakeholder sessions will also be planned in the future.
Value-Based Care Workgroup
In 2024, the AMA published a report that synthesizes important feedback from each sector of the health care ecosystem to understand how the CPT code set supports current value-based care arrangements and where there are opportunities for continued evolution.
As an outcome of this research, the CPT Editorial Panel created the Value-Based Care Workgroup. This workgroup is charged with evaluating how the CPT code set can more accurately reflect the clinical and operational realities of VBC models, which are increasingly team-based, digital and focused on outcomes.
Through this workgroup, the CPT Editorial Panel is exploring:
- Episode-based approaches that reflect care delivered across time and teams.
- To align coding more directly with clinical impact and outcomes.
- Modernizing code structures to better reflect longitudinal, team-based and digital-first models.