CPT 2026 Professional Edition [Paperback]

Description

This AMA CPT® 2026 Professional Edition code book includes the complete CPT® code set, official CPT® guidelines, and highlights of all 2026 code, guideline, and text changes. 

An enhanced table of contents enables quick searches, and the exhaustive Index lets you locate codes related to a specific procedure, service, anatomic site, condition, synonym, eponym, or abbreviation. You’ll easily fend off denials with features like the CPT® Changes, CPT® Assistant, and Clinical Examples in Radiology citations. Rely on the AMA CPT® 2026 Professional Edition to guide you in flawless reporting.  

The CPT® 2026 Professional Edition codebook covers hundreds of code, guideline and text changes and features:

• CPT® Changes, CPT® Assistant, and Clinical Examples in Radiology citations — provides cross-referenced information to popular AMA resources that can enhance your understanding of the CPT code set.
• A comprehensive index — locate codes related to a specific procedure, service, anatomic site, condition, synonym, eponym or abbreviation quickly.
• Anatomical and procedural illustrations — help improve coding accuracy and understanding of the anatomy and services/procedures discussed. For 2026, two new illustrations will be added to the code set. One will reflect modern medical practice in laparoscopy procedures, and the other to highlight the definition of each of the major coronary segments of the heart.
• Overall codebook table of contents —enable a quick search of the entire codebook’s content for quick access.
• Section table of contents — provide a helpful tool to navigate effectively and quickly through each section’s subsections and their codes.
• Complete list of the additions, deletions and revisions for codes and code descriptors — provide a summary and quick reference of the changes in the 2026 code set without comparing editions.
• Multiple appendices — offer additional information for modifiers; add-on codes; images of vascular families; re-sequenced codes, MAAAs and PLA services, list of artificial intelligence (AI) taxonomy for medical services and procedures described in the code set and classifying those codes into discrete categories of clinician-to-patient services (e.g., visit), clinician-to-clinician services (e.g., consultation), patient monitoring and digital diagnostic services; guidance for classifying various AI applications (e.g., expert systems, machine learning, algorithm-based services) for medical services and procedures into assistive, augmentative, and autonomous categories; and codes used for synchronous real-time interactive audio-only telemedicine services.
• Comprehensive E/M code selection tables — aid physicians and coders in assigning the most appropriate evaluation and management codes.
• Notes pages at the end of most sections and subsections.

Details

• ISBN-13: 978-1-64016-322-5
• Product Code: MA1201
• Publication Date: November 24, 2025
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 1268
• Publisher: American Medical Association
• Availability: Pre-Order