Code Maintenance Committee (CMC)

Code Maintenance Committee

• CMC Meeting Reports

  The summary report of decisions on all action requests submitted for consideration during the most recent annual CMC meeting is available for download by any member of the dental community, or the public at large. This report summarizes, in inventory number order, both Editorial Actions (corrections to grammatical and format errors in existing entries that do not affect purpose or scope) and Substantive Actions (requests for new codes, deletions of existing codes, and significant revisions to existing CDT Code entries).

  March 2020 CMC Meeting Summary – Actions for CDT 2021

  • Download the 2020 CMC Meeting Summary

  
  

  Detailed information about each action request listed in the Meeting Summary report is in the following files, whose content served as the CMC meeting’s agenda items.  They are in PDF format that may be downloaded –

  • Download the Editorial CDT Code Action Requests

  • Download the Substantive CDT Code Action Requests

  
  

  Please direct requests for additional information concerning this and prior meeting activity to the CMC Secretariat via email (dentalcode@ada.org) or surface mail (American Dental Association, 211 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611).

• CMC Member Organizations
  • Five representatives from the American Dental Association, one of whom will serve as chair
  • One representative from each of the ten recognized dental specialty organizations
    • American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
    • American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
    • American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
    • American Academy of Periodontology
    • American Association of Endodontists
    • American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
    • American Association of Orthodontists
    • American Association of Public Health Dentistry
    • American College of Prosthodontics
    • American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists
  • One representative from the Academy of General Dentistry
  • One representative from each of the following third-party payer organizations
    • America's Health Insurance Plans
    • Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
    • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
    • Delta Dental Plans Association
    • National Association of Dental Plans
  • One representative from the American Dental Education Association
    
    
• Next CMC Meeting

  The next annual CMC meeting is scheduled to convene at ADA Headquarters in Chicago on March 11-12, 2021 (Thursday-Friday). Proceedings begin on March 11th at 8:30 AM in the 2nd floor Auditorium. 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.

  • This an open meeting that includes public comment and discussion of any CDT Code Action Request before the committee.
    
    
  • The CMC meeting is when member organization representatives discuss and vote to accept, amend or decline each action request.
    
    
  • This meeting will adjourn when all agenda items have been addressed, which may be accomplished in less than the two days scheduled.
    
    
  • The “listen-only” connection information for non-members who are interested in the proceedings will be posted on this web page one-week before the scheduled meeting.
    
    
  • A compendium of all action requests on the next CMC meeting’s agenda will be posted on this page by mid-December.