Coding Notes

This handy guide delivers all the information your students need to understand medical billing and coding procedures…putting rarely memorized, but frequently used codes and documentation, payer, and coding guidelines at their fingertips. It’s a one-stop source for codes and categories that don’t change frequently, and ICD-10 references for locating the codes that do.

• One-stop source for commonly used codes and categories
• Quick access to the information needed for proper coding and billing in the medical office, including physician services • health insurances • documentation • SOAP and SNOCAMP formats Coding sections that include • add-on, unlisted procedure codes • immunizations • how to use the ICD-10 and CPT manuals Coverage of must-know information about submitting claims • insurance carriers • medical decision matrix • specialty coding • superbills • billing guidelines for PAs and NPs
• Must-know medical terminology for understanding the language in charts and bills, including common medical terms, prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations, acronyms
• 1995 and 1997 Evaluation & Management Guidelines
• Local coverage determinations and national coverage determinations as well as state statutes of limitations, and • state Medicare carriers

TAB 1  General Billing and Insurance Guidelines

TAB 2  Evaluation and Management Services

TAB 3  Surgery and Anesthesia

TAB 4  Radiology and Laboratory

TAB 5  Medicine

TAB 6  ICD-10-CM

TAB 7  CPT Modifiers and HCPCS Coding Level II (National Codes)

Grade: 9-12

Coding Notes (min. 15) (Print)
ISBN: 978-0-8036-4560-8
Author: Alice Anne Andress
© 2016
Page Count: 250