The Current Procedural Coding Expert: (formerly CPT Expert) includes information and resources, easy-to-navigate, format designed for coders, detailed guidance on how to improve coding accuracy, increase coding efficiency and expedite claim submission. Turn to the resource that goes beyond basic coding. With the Current Procedural Coding Expert, your CPT resource designed for a coders daily work not the classroom. Equipped with the entire CPT code set, physician practices, outpatient hospitals, and ASCs will benefit from this single, easy-to-navigate resource that arranges codes in a design known to speed coding, billing, and reimbursement. You'll also find a comprehensive listing of annual code additions/changes/deletions/reinstatements in the appendix, new code icons and notes, plus reimbursement information and mid-year changes not found in the AMAs CPT books.
- Interventional radiology guidance. Access an appendix of illustrations showing interventional radiology vascular families for more accurate radiology coding.
- Headings with detailed Ingenix subheadings. Locate and identify correct CPT codes quickly.
- Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs) appendix. Improve accuracy of claims by ensuring CMS compliance through easy access to codes and their associated MUE units.
- Brand name vaccinations associated with CPT codes. Aid accurate coding for medications with this helpful reference.
- Extensive user-friendly index. Find codes in a flash with the most accurate and expansive index of any CPT resource on the market with terms listed in a variety of ways.
- PQRI icons and appendix. Identify codes and their associated quality measure for reporting to Medicare.
- Code-specific definitions, rules, and references. Find comprehensive information compiled from American Medical Association (AMA), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), OptumInsight and other sources.
- Reinstated Code Icon. Identify reinstated codes quickly and easily without confusing them with Changed Codes.
- Facility and nonfacility RVUs and global/follow-up days. Ensure more accurate reimbursement with attachment to the corresponding code.
- Helpful illustrations. Detect anatomical differences in codes with ease.
- Medicare coverage rules with icons and Pub. 100 references. Understand what policies apply to CPT codes prior to claim submission with icons and references for each rule, plus a copy of the applicable policy in the appendix.