Start Date:5/25/2022
Start Time:12:00 PM CDT
Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence/augmented intelligence (AI)-enabled health care innovation are reshaping technology’s capacity to enhance patient care, population health and work life of health care providers. The pace of innovation also accelerates the need for trusted resources, and guidance for answers and meaningful perspective on AI.
Focused on making technology an asset, not a burden, in the delivery of health care, the American Medical Association (AMA) is committed to helping physicians and other health professionals become well-informed as they navigate new applications of AI—and new gaps in understanding. One crucial resource is the very language used to describe these AI applications, and the services and procedures they enable.
As the language of medicine today, the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set reflects the latest medical care provided to patients. To this end, the AMA CPT Editorial Panel has accepted the addition of CPT Appendix S: AI taxonomy for medical services & procedures. The taxonomy provides guidance for describing and classifying various AI applications and went into effect Jan. 1, 2022.
Join our webinar with CPT Editorial Panel Member Richard Frank, MD, PhD, and CPT Coding and Regulatory Manager Samantha Ashley to understand the AMA’s AI taxonomy. You will gain:
• Insight into the development of the AI taxonomy
• Understanding of the terminology included in the AI taxonomy
• Guidance on how to describe your AI-enabled innovation in the language of CPT
Speakers:
 Richard Frank, MD, PhD Member CPT® Editorial Panel Richard Frank, MD, PhD is panel member on the AMA CPT Editorial Panel. He is co-chair of the AMA Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group’s AI Workgroup. Dr. Frank is a chief medical officer of Siemens Healthineers North America and serves as the chief clinical consultant providing support and insight into U.S. business and policy issues. In addition, he is a frequent industry speaker and expert panelist at the invitation of FDA and CMS, serves as a non-voting industry panelist on advisory committees to FDA and CMS, and represents the company on several policy councils.
Dr. Frank was a founding member of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance of RSNA, the Molecular Imaging Section of MITA, and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, and is an associate editor of peer-reviewed journals.
He has 30 years of experience in regulatory labeling, public and private payment, and clinical adoption of therapeutic and diagnostic drugs and medical devices. Most recently, he spent nine years in the industry as a chief clinical scientist and as a vice president of Global Clinical Strategy and Policy.
Dr. Frank trained in Internal Medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, earning a license in the State of New York to practice medicine and surgery. He earned his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Tennessee-Memphis.
 Samantha Ashley, MS CPT® Coding and Regulatory Manager American Medical Association Samantha Ashley, MS, has been involved in coding and payment issues for many years, currently as coding and regulatory manager at the American Medical Association (AMA) supporting the work of the CPT Editorial Panel. Samantha staffs the AMA-convened Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group (DMPAG) and is lead staff for the DMPAG’s AI Workgroup. Prior to her current role at the AMA, Samantha worked in the AMA’s Advocacy department analyzing physician payment policy for the Relative Value Scale (RVS) Update Committee (RUC) and a subcommittee of the RUC called the Practice Expense Subcommittee. Prior to joining the AMA, Samantha worked in process improvement at the Center for Innovation and Transformational Change (CITC) at UMass Memorial Health Care.
Samantha is an alumnus of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. She earned her Master of Health Care Policy and Management from the H. John Heinz III College of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and her Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Lori Prestesater Vice President, Health Solutions American Medical Association As vice president of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Health Solutions (HS) division, Prestesater brings a wealth of senior leadership experience. She is responsible for expanding the organization’s influence and impact in the health care market, overseeing all customer-facing efforts and growth initiatives for HS’s products and solutions. Before joining the AMA, Prestesater served as executive vice president and chief revenue officer at AxisPoint Health, where she developed and implemented highly successful B2B growth strategies for the Care Management Services organization. Prior to that, Prestesater was the chief growth officer at Recondo Technology, a leading provider of revenue cycle solutions, where she oversaw all growth and revenue-oriented initiatives and departments including sales, marketing, product management, corporate business development, and strategic mergers and acquisitions. Prestesater has also held senior leadership positions at McKesson Corporation and TriZetto Corporation. She is a member of Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation and serves as a mentor and guest lecturer at the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business.
Disclaimer: Information provided by the AMA contained within this resource is for medical coding guidance purposes only. It does not (i) supersede or replace the AMA’s Current Procedural Terminology manual (“CPT® Manual”) or other coding authority, (ii) constitute clinical advice, (iii) address or dictate payer coverage or reimbursement policy, and (iv) substitute for the professional judgement of the practitioner performing a procedure, who remains responsible for correct coding.
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