2010 Current Procedural Coding Expert Compact

With more than 700 CPT^® code changes in effect for 2009, you can expect more in 2010. Turn to the resource that goes beyond basic coding with the Ingenix Current Procedural Coding Expert, your CPT^® resource designed for a coder's 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 AMA's CPT^® books.

Key Features and Benefits:

• NEW Ingenix Edge — Interventional radiology guidance. Access an appendix of illustrations showing interventional radiology vascular families for more accurate radiology coding.
• Ingenix Edge — Headings with detailed Ingenix subheadings. Locate CPT^® codes quickly.
• Ingenix Edge — Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs) appendix. Improve claims accuracy by ensuring CMS compliance through easy to access codes and their associated MUE units.
• Ingenix Edge — Brand name vaccinations associated with CPT^® codes. Aid accurate coding for medications with this helpful reference.
• Ingenix Edge — 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.
• Ingenix Edge — PQRI icons and appendix. Identify codes and their associated quality measure for reporting to Medicare.
• Ingenix Exclusive — Code-specific definitions, rules and references. Reference comprehensive information compiled from American Medical Association (AMA), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Ingenix and other sources to assist with accurate coding and speed reimbursement.
• Facility and non-facility 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.
• Pub. 100s and national coverage determinations (NCDs). Access new information that affects coding, including better identification of the national coverage manual.
• Modifier icons. Apply modifiers correctly with quick icon identification with the CPT^® code.

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