Medicare Desk Reference for Physicians

The Medicare Desk Reference for Physicians, also available as an eBook, is a comprehensive guide providing easy-to-understand explanations for Medicare’s Part B billing and payment rules. You’ll find answers to your coverage and reimbursement questions without wasting valuable time researching through multiple resources. With updates twice a year you’ll also stay current with Medicare Part B billing changes.

• eBook Exclusive — Table of contents instantly links the user to any chapter.
• eBook Exclusive — PDF features allow the user to move back and forth between views quickly.
• Ingenix Edge — Icons highlight status of national coverage determination (NCD) policies. Know the coverage status of each item or procedure and minimize denials.
• Ingenix Edge — Fully indexed and organized with crosswalks between the new internet-only manuals (IOMs) and the old print manuals. Quickly and easily locate the item or service you are looking for with both crosswalks from new to old manuals and an alphabetic index.
• Easily identify coverage issues by CPT® or HCPCS Level II code. Crosswalk of CPT® codes and HCPCS codes assigned to national issues.
• National laboratory policies. Keep up with changes to these policies and avoid denials due to inappropriate procedure-to-diagnosis coding by quickly determining the ICD-9-CM codes that meet the medical necessity criteria for specific laboratory services.
• Pending national decisions. Proactively manage national coverage issues that affect Part B and Part A services by more effectively tracking pending national decisions with one resource.
• Regular updates. Save time and minimize billing errors by staying up to date on all new national Medicare coverage policies and revisions to existing policies.
• Coverage alert newsletter. Newsletter includes a synopsis of the changes in each update so you can see changes at a glance.

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