Code Maintenance Committee (CMC)

The next annual CMC meeting is scheduled to convene on March 10 – 11, 2022 (Thursday- Friday). Proceedings begin on March 10th at 8:30 AM.  Additional information concerning this meeting will be posted in December 2021.

• The CMC meeting is when member organization representatives discuss and vote to accept, amend or decline each action request.
• This an open meeting that includes public comment and discussion of any CDT Code Action Request before the committee.
• The meeting will formally adjourn when the CMC has addressed all agenda items, which may be accomplished in less than the two days set aside.

2021 March CMC Meeting Action Summary

The Code Maintenance Committee (CMC) convened its Annual Meeting on March 11-12, 2021 to agree upon CDT Code changes to be incorporated into the code set.  Information about the proceedings and decisions are in the Meeting Action Summary report, which includes the CMC’s rationale for changes rejected by the committee.  The report is available to review and download now:

• March 2021 CMC Meeting Action Summary Report 

There are 45 changes to be included in CDT 2022 – 16 additions, 13 revisions, 6 deletions and 10 editorial.  This CDT Code version is effective on January 1, 2022.

During this meeting the CMC also approved inclusion of eight new COVID-19 related procedure codes for inclusion in the code set’s current version – CDT 2021. Information about these procedures is in documents posted on the CDT’s “Coding Education” https://www.ada.org/en/publications/cdt/coding-education

The following PDF files contains the complete Editorial and Substantive action requests as submitted, in inventory # order, to supplement the meeting summary report’s content.

• 2021 CMC Meeting Editorial Action Inventory

• 2021 CMC Meeting Substantive Action Inventory

• CMC Committee Protocol