Optimized for medical necessity and reimbursement understanding, this all-in-one resource focuses on the most important CPT and HCPCS codes for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, plus medicine and ancillary services codes chosen by experts who have taken into consideration utilization, denial risk and complexity.
CPT® Coding Essentials optimizes both CPT and ICD-10 code selection with helpful CPT-to-ICD-10-CM crosswalks and detailed explanations of anatomy, physiology and documentation. Other than the AMA CPT® Professional Edition codebook, this is the only book in the market with verbatim CPT-panel—approved guidelines and parenthetical information specific to cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.
This is the ideal daily companion featuring useful, definitive specialty-specific coding information beyond what is provided in a full procedural codebook.
Other CPT® Coding Essentials titles include:
- CPT® Coding Essentials for Anesthesiology & Pain Management 2020
- CPT® Coding Essentials for General Surgery & Gastroenterology 2020
- CPT® Coding Essentials for Neurology & Neurosurgery 2020
- CPT® Coding Essentials for Obstetrics and Gynecology 2020
- CPT® Coding Essentials for Ophthalmology 2020
- CPT® Coding Essentials for Orthopedics: Lower Extremities 2020
- CPT® Coding Essentials for Orthopedics: Upper Extremities and Spine 2020
- CPT® Coding Essentials for Plastics & Dermatology 2020
- CPT® Coding Essentials for Urology & Nephrology 2020
Features
The perfect codebook companion for your specialty practice!
Features include:
- A subset of specialty-specific CPT codes chosen by experts who take into consideration utilization, denial risk and complexity
- Official AMA coding guidelines pertinent to the specialty and not available in any other specialty codebooks in the market
- Official code-specific CPT parenthetical instructions
- Plain English descriptors that clarify for the reader the details of the service represented by the CPT code
- CPT® Assistant citations
- Procedural illustrations
- Crosswalks from CPT to ICD-10-CM
- National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits to identify bundled and separately billable codes
- CMS Pub 100 billing guidance citations
- Facility and non-facility relative value units (RVUs) including global surgery days, physician work and practice, malpractice and total expenses as well as those modifiers that can affect relative values
- Additional chapters on terminology and anatomy, HCPCS codes, CPT modifiers and ICD-10-CM coding and documentation practices
- Appendixes offering clinical documentation checklists and evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines
- Call outs regarding additional information available in the CPT® QuickRef app (requires in-app purchases)
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