Vaccinations & Immunizations

AMA 2024 CPT Code Set Addresses Language Barriers, Immunization Codes

September 12, 2023 - The American Medical Association (AMA) has released the 2024 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set, which addresses language barriers by including Spanish descriptors of medical services. Each year, AMA releases a new edition of the CPT code set four months before the January 1 operational date. The CPT Editorial Panel gathers feedback from...

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CMS Withdraws COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

by Jacqueline LaPointe

CMS has formally withdrawn the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, according to a final rule published in the Federal Register today. The Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination...

Analysis: COVID-19 Booster Campaign Could Save $44B in Healthcare Spending

by Jacqueline LaPointe

A COVID-19 boost vaccination campaign could seriously impact potential healthcare spending this fall and winter, according to a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund. The private think tank recently...

AMA Announces CPT Code for Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for Young Kids

by Victoria Bailey

The American Medical Association (AMA) has updated the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set to include CPT codes for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children aged six months through five...

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Boosted Nursing Home Staff Vaccination Rates

by Victoria Bailey

Following the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for nursing home staff, the vaccination rate among facility workers increased across the country by 25 percentage points, according to an issue brief from the...

States Try Again to Block Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

by Victoria Bailey

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and 15 other state attorney generals have filed a complaint against HHS and CMS to block the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. CMS first issued...

AMA Updates CPT Codes for Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine

by Sarai Rodriguez

The American Medical Association (AMA) has updated the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set to include a new code for administering pediatric doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine...

AHA Shares New Concerns with Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

by Sarai Rodriguez

A comment letter from the American Hospital Association (AHA) to CMS requested changes and increased clarity concerning the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare...

CMS Reinstates COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate in 25 States

by Sarai Rodriguez

CMS announced it would be reinstating the COVID-19 healthcare worker vaccine mandate to facilities in 25 states and the District of Columbia that are not affected by the preliminary...

Urgent Care Utilization Pivots to Testing, Immunization

by Sarai Rodriguez

According to an Epic research study, urgent care utilization has increased since the beginning of the pandemic, but visits have shifted to provide more testing and immunization and less non-COVID...

Study: 30% of Healthcare Workers Not Fully Vaccinated

by Sarai Rodriguez

An estimated 30 percent of healthcare workers were not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of September 2021, according to a CDC analysis published in the American Journal of Infection Control. The...

AMA Issues CPT Codes for Pediatric Doses of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

by Victoria Bailey

The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for pediatric doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. In September 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech shared the...

Nursing Home Staff Must Get Vaccinated or Risk Medicare Funding

by Jill McKeon

Nursing home staff must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing Medicare and Medicaid funding, President Biden announced Wednesday. The announcement comes at a time when healthcare worker...

AMA Finalizes CPT Codes for Third Doses of Moderna, Pfizer Vaccines

by Victoria Bailey

The American Medical Association (AMA) announced that the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for the third doses of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are effective for immediate...

AMA Unveils CPT Codes for Third Dose of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

by Jill McKeon

The American Medical Association (AMA) unveiled a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for a potential third dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The AMA chose to publish the code in...

Can Behavioral Science Reduce Healthcare Worker Vaccine Hesitancy?

by Jill McKeon

Individually addressed email reminders driven by behavioral science may be effective at reducing healthcare worker vaccine hesitancy, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open. The...

AMA Supports COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare Workers

by Jill McKeon

AMA, along with dozens of healthcare organizations, voiced support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers in a recent announcement. Cases are increasing across the country as the highly...

AMA Issues Unique CPT Codes for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The American Medical Association (AMA) has added new codes to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set to account for the COVID-19 vaccine candidate from Janssen Pharmaceutica, a division...

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