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Re: CPT Code Ownership Controversy by Thomas Good on Friday October 24, @05:42PM The age of HIPAA has only exacerbated this problem. We are required to embed these codes into 837p transactions but cannot have access to them freely. The greed (and avarice?) of the AMA is harming the very people they are sworn to protect...as a software developer working on a hipaa compliant billing module I find that I apparently have little recourse but follow the lead of EDS in their PES product (Provider Electronic Solutions) - have a table embedded in the SRV section of a claim where CPT code/descriptions are stored so they must only be entered once. This is a workaround but really quite lame. Unfortunately the AMA can't be sued under the FOIA as they are not publicly funded - in theory. But as always it is the public that pays. We are required to use a proprietary code set in our transactions...it is a published standard required by government - and yet we don't have access to it. I would define that as an oxymoron. Post Reply Name Email Notify Notify me via email of responses to this message Title Comment (Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!) Encoding HTML Structured Text Plain Text If none of the above mean anything to you, select 'Plain'! Attachment (You can attach a file to your reply which can then be retrieved by other readers. Try to keep the file sizes below 500Kb in order to conserve network and server resources.) Enter the above code (*Required) Allowed HTML <B> <I> <P> <A> <LI> <OL> <UL> <EM> <BR> <TT> <HR> <STRONG> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV .*> <DIV> <P .*> Important Stuff: Note: Fields with bold titles are required. Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people comments instead of starting new threads, Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Please do not post offtopic, inflammatory, inappropriate, illegal, or offensive comments. Repeat offenders will be sanctioned.

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