{
  "id": 881138,
  "title": "Health advocacy group sues AMA to make billing codes public",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/health-advocacy-group-sues-ama-to-make-billing-codes-public",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-14T14:00:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Healthcare Dive",
    "slug": "healthcare-dive",
    "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/patient-rights-advocate-sues-ama-cpt-billing-codes-copyright/827830/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "PatientRightsAdvocate.org is challenging the doctor’s association’s copyright of the current procedural terminology, or CPT, system. Use of the codes is required by law, and that means they should be freely available, per the suit.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Fierce Healthcare",
        "title": "Patient advocacy group sues AMA for open access to CPT system",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/patient-advocacy-group-sues-ama-for-open-access-to-cpt-system",
        "published": "2026-08-14T16:08:52.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}