Until recently, there were no words to describe medical services or procedures delivered via Augmented Intelligence (AI). A working group within the AMA Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group created the health care AI taxonomy, Appendix S, to overcome this challenge. It offers guidance for classifying various artificial intelligence/augmented intelligence (AI) applications. This guidance should be consulted for code change applications (CCAs) describing the work associated with using AI-enabled medical services and/or procedures.
Appendix S to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) set provides uniform terminology and taxonomy that creates a path to payment for AI-related medical services and procedures. The taxonomy provides guidance for classifying various AI applications (e.g., expert systems, machine learning, and algorithm-based services) for medical services and procedures into one of three categories: assistive, augmentative or autonomous.
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