Turn to the resource that goes beyond basic
coding with the Current Procedural Coding Expert - Professional
Edition, your CPT coding resource.
Equipped with the entire 2020 CPT code set
with easy-to-use coding includes and excludes notes for coding guidance and
Medicare icons for speedy coding, billing, and reimbursement, this
easy-to-navigate resource will benefit physician practices, outpatient hospitals,
and ASCs.
You will also find a comprehensive listing of
annual code additions, changes, deletions, and reinstatements in the appendix;
new code icons and notes; plus reimbursement information and mid-year changes
not found in the American Medical Association's (AMA) CPT codebooks.
Exclusive features to this Optum360
Professional Edition:
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Common features to both Current Procedural
Coding Expert — Professional Edition and Current Procedural Coding Expert
(Spiral):
- Optum360 Edge — Code-specific definitions, rules, and
references. Reference comprehensive
information compiled from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS), the AMA, Optum360, and other sources to assist with accurate coding
and speed reimbursement.
- Icons/color bars. Familiar
icons or color bars used for new, revised, add on, re-sequenced,
telemedicine and for correct modifier usage. Also identify which new or
revised CPT codes are valid, but not in the current CPT book.
- Extensive user-friendly index. Find codes in a flash with Optum's accurate and
expansive alphabetic index with terms listed in a variety of ways.
- CCI edit icon. Quickly
identify those CPT codes with corresponding CCI edits.
- Evaluation and Management appendix. Easy-to-use grids and extended guidelines to facilitate
E&M code selection.
- New, Changed, and Deleted codes appendix. Easily identify changes to CPT code descriptions,
including code changes made mid-year by the AMA not found in the AMA's CPT
codebook.
- CPT Assistant references. Identifies that an article or discussion of a CPT code
exists in the AMA's CPT Assistant newsletter. Use the
citation to locate the correct volume.
- Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs) appendix. Improve claims accuracy by ensuring CMS
compliance through easy-to-access codes and their associated MUE units.
- Medicare coverage rules with icons and IOM references. Understand which CMS policies apply to CPT codes
prior to claim submission. Some of these icons include ASC payment and
OPPS status indicators and IOM policies.
- Facility and non-facility RVUs and global/follow-up
days. Evaluate your fees, and
understand the impact on standard post procedure coverage
- Helpful illustrations. Detailed color anatomy illustration appendix. Plus many
illustrations at the code level identifying specific code-related anatomy.
- Modifier appendix. Includes CPT and HCPCS Level II modifiers and
descriptions for easy reference for Medicare coding.
- Brand-name vaccinations associated with CPT codes. Vaccine names are listed by the CPT code to aid
accurate coding for medications.
- Appendix with codes used to report inpatient procedures
only. Avoid payment denials by
making coding errors.
- Glossary of terms. Increase your understanding of coding, billing, and
reimbursement terms to improve coding accuracy.
- Softbound. Less
bulky for travel and easy-to-see title on your bookshelf.
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