{"id":15099,"date":"2026-08-14T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15099"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:20:21","slug":"patient-group-sues-ama-says-the-org-shouldnt-be-charging-for-cpt-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15099","title":{"rendered":"Patient Group Sues AMA, Says the Org Shouldn\u2019t Be Charging for CPT Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/08\/american-medical-association-ama-cpt-code-lawsuit\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PatientRightsAdvocate.org sued the American Medical Association this week, arguing the trade group has no valid copyright over the CPT codes that providers must use to bill for care. It follows a public letter Senator Bill Cassidy sent to the AMA last year accusing it of \u201cabus[ing] [its] government-backed monopoly by charging exorbitant fees to anyone using the CPT code set.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/08\/american-medical-association-ama-cpt-code-lawsuit\/\">Patient Group Sues AMA, Says the Org Shouldn\u2019t Be Charging for CPT Codes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PatientRightsAdvocate.org sued the American Medical Association this week, arguing the trade group has no valid copyright over the CPT codes that providers must use to bill for care. It follows a public letter Senator Bill Cassidy sent to the AMA last year accusing it of \u201cabus[ing] [its] government-backed monopoly by charging exorbitant fees to anyone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}