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DO appointed to AMA CPT Editorial Panel

Judith O’Connell, DO, brings her expertise in current procedural terminology and OMT coding to her new position.

Judith O’Connell, DO, has been appointed to the American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Editorial Panel. She begins her position next month.

Dr. O’Connell has served as an advisor to the panel on behalf of the AOA since 2008. During that time, she evaluated and made recommendations on hundreds of CPT codes.

She also serves as a member of the AOA Expert Panel on Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) for the Relative Value Scale Update Committee five-year review and reevaluation of the OMT code set. As part of this group, Dr. O’Connell has supported OMT codes through presentation to the committee as well as refinement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through a workgroup.

Previously Dr. O’Connell represented the AOA on the Health Care Financing Administration. In that role, she served on a workgroup responsible for osteopathic manipulation codes, physical medicine codes, chiropractic code delineation, documentation guidelines and implementation of OMT codes into CPT.

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  1. Michael Fitzgerald, former secretary to the AOA Bureau of Osteopathic History and Identity

    The contributions that Judith A. O’Connell, DO, MHA, FAAO, has made to advancing osteopathic medicine go back far earlier than 2008, when she became the AOA’s adviser to the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology Editorial Panel. For example, Dr. O’Connell served the American Academy of Osteopathy as its 1992-93 president, and she has been serving the academy as its secretary-treasurer since 2013.

    At the AOA’s Osteopathic Medical Conference and Exposition in 2014, Dr. O’Connell delivered the academy’s 67th annual Thomas L. Northup Lecture, during which she outlined the advances the osteopathic medical profession could make by embracing the single accreditation system for graduate medicine education. You can listen to Dr. O’Connell’s Northup address on the academy’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE_r4VRxIDo.

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