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Validate specialty-specific CPTr code selection This coder's companion strengthens orthopedic specialty coding skills while also functioning as a training guide for new orthopedic coders. Work through challenging orthopedic surgical scenarios to test your coding competency, and you'll ensure proper coding on every claim and your practice will receive the reimbursement it deserves. The CPT 2014 changes are expected to contain major revisions to orthopedic coding, which will be addressed in Orthopedic Coding Decision Support. Inside you'll also find: * Real-life coding examples and chapter reviews to help you bill orthopedic services correctly. * Critical coding principles to help orthopedic coders get up to speed. * Strategies for working through the rules and regulations surrounding procedure cores for ankle, foot, and toe. * Anatomic terms to help increase your understanding of critical anatomy and improve your accuracy in coding. * Tips, hints, definitions and warnings highlighted throughout that allow you to find important orthopedic information easily. * A mock examination and answer key that allows you to test your orthopedic billing knowledge. Order now to begin validating your critical coding decisions.
Solutions to specialty-specific CPTr coding challenges The CPT 2014 changes are expected to contain major revisions. Keep your practice updated. Orthopedic Coding Answers, 2014 provides detailed answers to your most challenging ortho coding questions. This must-have reference for coding common orthopedic procedures answers more than 100 questions so you can be certain your coding is accurate the first time. Orthopedic Coding Answers, 2014 helps you navigate through the coding scenarios your practice sees on a daily basis and gives you instant access to answers from top coding and billing expert Margie Scalley-Vaught. This must-have resource includes: * A go-to reference tool when coding common procedures to make sure it's done correctly the first time. * Official sources cited for reference, so you'll know where to go to further research the issue and reinforce your coding decisions. * Plain-English, detailed explanations of difficult orthopedic coding procedures allowing even non-clinicians to code and bill correctly. * Book sectioned by parts of the body - upper extremities, lower extremities, spine coding, E/M, ICD-9 and Medicare issues - so you can easily find the information you need. Order now to ensure that you always have answers to your most frequent orthopedic coding questions.
You'll only need one study guide to help you prepare for your Specialty Coding Professional (SCP) or Advanced Coding Specialist (ACS) examination for Orthopedics. Authored by a team of industry experts, the Orthopedic Coding Certification Study Guide includes practice questions and study outline for both of the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance's certification exams. This guide contains: * Terminology and concepts relative to orthopedics. * Challenges to consider in Evaluation and Management Coding in orthopedics. * Critical Issues within orthopedics, i.e., coding of common procedures and diagnoses, etc. * General Coding and Billing rules of note that every coder should know. * Advice and Facts for Test Day. * Practice Questions - get ready for your exam by testing your coding skills. The questions provided in the study guide are just like the ones on the exam, so you'll be able to see right away if you are ready for your exam or if you need more preparation. Exam Outline - see the concepts that will be tested on the orthopedics specialty exam. * Coding Tips - pay special attention to these tips, as they may be a hint to an exam question. Get on the path to certification today and join the thousands of coders who have already earned BMSC credentials. Order your Orthopedic Coding Certification Study Guide today.
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Operative note exercises to improve competency Educational and interactive, the Orthopedic Coding Trainer, 2014 provides real-life orthopedic-specific operative notes that walk you through a comprehensive approach to coding. These tools will help you develop a systematic approach to successfully deciphering difficult operative notes. Learn what should be in a note to guarantee correct reimbursement and fewer denials. You'll work through more than 75 operative notes that cover procedures of the upper and lower extremities and the spine. Nationally recognized orthopedic coding expert Margie Scalley Vaught, CPC, CPC-H, CCS-P, ACS-OR provides the answers based on her 20+ years of front-line experience. Margie has worked through each op note to reveal her comprehensive approach to coding. Margie's expert direction will guarantee you have the tools to successfully decipher your own difficult operative notes. Inside you'll find: * An introduction explaining what a good operative note should contain, so you know when key information is missing and when you should go back to the physician and get it to avoid missteps. * More than 75 real-life operative notes so you can test your coding knowledge and discover where you may be overlooking billable services. * Answer key for the operative notes, with key phrases highlighted in each, so you know what to look for in order to make accurate procedure and diagnosis coding selection If you don't have a systematic approach to tearing apart your op notes, you risk missing billable services, unbundling or even coding the wrong procedure entirely! The Orthopedic Coding Trainer, 2014 provides a greater understanding of what should be in a note to guarantee correct reimbursement and fewer denials.
Wondering how to deal with some of the bundled procedures and more specific code choices for shoulder and elbow prosthesis removal codes in 2014? SuperCoder Illustrated for Orthopedics 2014 is the go-to source for all your orthopedic coding needs. We bring you tips and tactics to help you beat all the odds and be compliant through the year. This handy book contains all the updated information and description you need for every CPTr code: CCI edits, relative value units (RVUs), and simple, easy-to-understand lay terms at your fingertips! What you get with the Illustrated Book for Orthopedic 2014: * ICD-9 & ICD-10 CrossReference tools * Up-to-date ICD-9 and CPTr procedure codes * Easy-to-read lists of comprehensive CCI edits to protect payments * Global period indicators so you capture every legitimate E/M * Medicare physician fee data to plug revenue drains * Improved coding accuracy with easy-to-understand Lay Terms and Coding Tips This comprehensive resource for orthopedics codes will help you boost your coding accuracy and keep denials at bay.
Learning advanced medical coding is easy with Carol J. Buck's proven, step-by-step method! The Next Step: Advanced Medical Coding and Auditing, 2014 Edition helps you master coding skills for services such as medical visits, diagnostic testing and interpretation, treatments, surgeries, and anesthesia. Patient cases reflect actual medical records and give you real-world experience with advanced coding. Enhance your decision-making skills and learn to confidently pull the right information from documents, select the right codes, determine the correct sequencing of those codes, properly audit cases, and prepare for the transition to ICD-10 with the help of coding author and educator Carol J. Buck! Realistic patient cases simulate the professional coding experience by using actual medical records (with personal patient details changed or removed), allowing you to practice coding with advanced material. Dual coding addresses the transition to ICD-10 by providing coding answers for both ICD-9 and ICD-10. UNIQUE! Evaluation and Management (E/M) Audit Forms, developed to determine the correct E/M codes, simplify the coding process and help to ensure accuracy. Auditing cases prepare you to assign correct codes to complicated records, as well as audit records for accuracy. From the Trenches boxes highlight the experiences of real-life medical coders and provide practical tips, advice, and encouragement. UNIQUE! Netter anatomy plates in each chapter help you understand anatomy and how it affects coding. More than 160 full-color illustrations depict and clarify advanced concepts. Updated content includes the latest coding information available, to promote accurate coding and success on the job.