2021

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In November, the ATS and CHEST are participating in the AMA RUC process to re-survey two large categories of CPT services important to our membership. The categories are;

  • Hospital Inpatient-Observation-Admission and Discharge CPT codes 99221-99223, 99231-99239, and
  • Hospital Inpatient Consultation Visits 99252-99255

These codes have substantial revisions proposed for implementation in the calendar year 2023. The ATS and CHEST have sent survey requests to randomly selected members. If you receive a survey from ATS or CHEST and you provide these services or are familiar with these services, it is essential that you participate in any and all of the re-surveys that you receive via email. The survey results assist our member advisors in recommending the relative values to the AMA RUC and in the end to Medicare.

 

Many of you may have responded to a similar survey of these codes in June of 2021. Unfortunately, there are issues with the June survey instrument that led to problems with the survey data. ATS and CHEST are re-surveying these codes with updated survey instruments. Please respond to the re-survey effort, even if you responded in June.

Last Reviewed: November 2021