Coding for Pediatrics 2022: A Manual for Pediatric Documentation and Payment

This year’s completely updated 27th edition of Coding for Pediatrics includes all changes in Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes—complete with expert guidance for their application. Also included are the new office and outpatient evaluation and management coding changes. The book’s many clinical vignettes and examples, as well as the many coding pearls throughout, provide added guidance needed to ensure accuracy and payment.
 
KEY UPDATES
 • New chapters dedicated to telemedicine and remote physiological data services
• New codes for single-disease care management
• New codes for congenital cardiac catheterization
• Clarifications to outpatient E/M requirements
• Coding changes in the following areas:
– Updates to musculoskeletal
system
– Cardiovascular
– Male genital system
– Face to face medicine
– COVID vaccines
• More than 80 new and revised coding examples
• Revised organization for more efficient and and easier content access
• Additional online-only content added

The AAP Committee on Coding and Nomenclature (COCN) is responsible for reviewing of all proposed changes to CPT and ICD-10-CM coding structures to determine whether the Academy will endorse the proposal; participates in the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee's (RUC) survey process by validating clinical vignettes, evaluating survey data, and deciding on physician work and practice expense relative value units (RVUs) to recommend to the RUC; and serves as a review panel regarding other activities such as identifying Academy positions on the RBRVS. The COCN also monitors the Medicare RBRVS physician fee schedule and its adoption by private and public payers.

To update pediatricians on its activities, including the formal publication of new and revised CPT and ICD-10-CM coding structures and final values for CPT codes used by pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists, the COCN publishes periodic articles in AAP News along with a monthly coding column called Coding ?Corner.