Several insurers are automatically downcoding -- and, therefore, paying less for -- claims for non-procedural office visits, a practice that provider groups said is unfair and may be anticompetitive.

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View the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) manual by the American Medical Association (AMA) which has guidelines that are required for each level of service code within the various E&M categories.