Synopsis
With accurate coding and proper reimbursement on the line, you need a resource that will bring it all together in one place. Designed by credentialed AAPC and AHIMA members, this is the ultimate coding tool for CPT®coding professionals.
- All 2008 new and revised CPT®codes with official descriptions
- Plain English Descriptions™ for over 1,000 complex codes
- Plain English Descriptions™ for coding tips and guidance to describe how to accurately code claims
- Symbols denoting edits or comments from CPT Assistant and Medicare s CIM and Pub100
- Symbols denoting billing for bilateral procedures, assistant surgeon, co-surgeon, and team surgery
- Symbols indicating coding intra-operative and post-operative services
- Symbols indicating those codes subject to patient age and sex
- Illustrations to provide greater insight to specific procedures RVU values for each code along with Medicare global follow up rules
- Durable Medical Equipment coding tips when applicable
- Medicare modifier applicability edits help you code commonly used modifiers
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