Ready to learn about the 2023 CPT® E/M changes? There is a significant update to the Evaluation and Management (E/M) section of the CPT® book. There are 25 codes that are going away. There are revisions to the introductory guidelines related to five different categories of codes. Prolonged services are getting yet another overhaul. This article discusses the American Medical Association’s E/M changes, but does not include how Medicare is proposing to accept–or not–these codes and policies. That will be addressed in a later article.

Here are the codes that are being deleted.

• Hospital observation services codes 99217—99220, 99224–99226
• Consultation codes 99241, 99251
• Nursing facility service 99318
• Domiciliary, rest home (eg, boarding home), or custodial care services, 99324—99328, 99334-99337, 99339, 99340
• Home or resident services code 99343
• Prolonged services codes 99354—99357