As AMA prepares for its May 2021 CPT meeting, it has released the agenda of code proposals. Interested stakeholders can obtain a copy of the application packets by requested by April 15, and then, responding by April 22. AMA screens the requests to comment for being a validly involved stakeholder (e.g. not a journalist, not just curious, etc). For example, a competitor company is a valid stakeholder.
See the code proposal list here:
https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2021-03/cpt-panel-may-2021-agenda.pdf
There are circa 54 total agenda topics. It looks like 17 are for Category III codes. The codes range from Tab 6, Revise Non Face to Face Inter-Professional Consultation (99451), to Tab 60, a proposal to create a code for cytogenomic (genomic wide) analysis by the low-pass sequencing method (styled as an addition to the 81228/81229 cytogenomics code family). This technique has been reported to have less adverse racial bias that some other methods (here).
It might be a bit scary for owners of Cat III codes that there are ~17 new applications for these codes, but I only counted 1 application to elevate a Cat III to a Cat I code and 17 applications for simple deletion of Cat III codes.
###
Lab test items had an earlier comment cycle in the beginning of March (entry point here) to allow the comments be available for pre-May subgroups for lab tests (Molecular Pathology Advisory Group MPAG, Pathology Coding Caucus PCC.)
