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Meet Jay
Jay Ahlman formerly served as the Vice President of CPT Coding and Reimbursement Policy and Strategy for the American Medical Association (AMA). Jay joined the AMA in 1999 and has held various roles in healthcare strategy, policy and coding during his tenure. Since 2008, Jay has led the AMA group responsible for the maintenance of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set and is the lead staff to the CPT Editorial Panel for the AMA. During this time Jay has worked with the CPT Editorial Panel to lead many significant changes, including the evolution of CPT Literature Standards and the launch of new CPT coding sections including the Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) code section. Jay also led the AMA’s Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group, which is an advisory body made up of 18 industry experts charged with creating solutions to enable the integration of digital healthcare and telehealth solutions into clinical practice. Jay was involved in the revision of the CPT Evaluation and Management coding structure and the addition of Remote Physiologic Monitoring, Remote Therapeutic Monitoring, and the rapid addition of COVID-19 testing and vaccine codes within the CPT code set.
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