Patient Rights Advocate Sues AMA To Make CPT Billing Codes Freely Available

PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA), a non-profit health care transparency organization, filed a lawsuit against the American Medical Association (AMA) on August 12, 2026, seeking permission to publish the AMA's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) billing codes online for free. CPT is a coding system used to identify medical procedures and services for billing and other health care purposes. PRA argues that consumers, health care provider organizations, insurers, researchers, and policymakers should not have to pay a private trade association to access codes that governments require them to use.

The lawsuit challenges the AMA's copyright and licensing restrictions on a . . .