2015 Coding Companion® for Cardiology/Cardiothoracic Surgery/Vascular Surgery Consolidate the coding process with the one-stop resource developed exclusively for those who code for cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery and vascular surgery. This comprehensive guide includes 2015 CPT® and ICD-9-CM code sets specific to cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, and vascular surgery in an easy-to-use, one-page format. Each page has the CPT® code with its official description and a detailed illustration, as well as lay descriptions, coding tips, terminology, cross coding, and national Medicare relative value units. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy.
 Key Features and Benefits
 Illustrated one-page format. All the information you need is on one illustrated page, including lay descriptions, coding tips, terms, cross-coding, and Medicare RVUs and Pub. 100 references.
 Organized by CPT® code. Essential procedures for cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery and vascular surgery are listed by CPT® code, along with crosswalks to ICD-9-CM diagnosis, procedure, and anesthesia codes.
 Easily determine fees for your practice and reinforce consistency in the charges. National Medicare relative value units for surgery codes and most diagnostic procedures are included.
 Avoid claim denials and/or audits. Medicare payer information provides the references to Pub. 100 guidelines, follow-up days, and assistant-at-surgery.
 CCI Edits by CPT® code. CPT® codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online.
 CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

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2015 Coding Companion® for Plastics and Dermatology Consolidate the coding process with the one-stop resource developed exclusively for those who code for plastic surgery and dermatology. This comprehensive guide includes 2015 CPT® and ICD-9-CM code sets specific to plastic surgery and dermatology in an easy-to-use, one-page format. Each page has the CPT® code with its official description and a detailed illustration, as well as lay descriptions, coding tips, terminology, cross-coding and national Medicare relative value units. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy. Key Features and Benefits Illustrated one-page format. All the information you need is on one illustrated page, including lay descriptions, coding tips, terms, cross-coding, and Medicare RVUs and Pub. 100 references. Organized by CPT® code. Essential procedures for plastic surgery and dermatology are listed by CPT® code, along with crosswalks to ICD-9-CM diagnosis, procedure, and anesthesia codes. Easily determine fees for your practice and reinforce consistency in the charges. National Medicare relative value units for surgery codes and most diagnostic procedures are included. Avoid claim denials and/or audits. Medicare payer information provides the references to Pub. 100 guidelines, follow-up days, and assistant-at-surgery. CCI Edits by CPT® code. CPT® codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online. CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

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 The higher degree of specificity in the ICD-10-CM code set is going to require more documentation and more coding precision. By mapping the most frequently used ICD-9-CM codes for your practice or facility to their corresponding ICD-10-CM codes you can identify areas needing increased documentation and evaluate how additional specificity may impact your revenue.
 ICD-10-CM Mappings was created to get your office or facility ready to meet the documentation and coding challenges of the new ICD-10-CM code set.
 Key Features and Benefits:
 Perform impact analysis to identify and focus on high priority coding issues. Using the ICD-9-CM codes you already know as your guide, you'll be able to quickly identify the ICD-10-CM codes that are pertinent to your office or facility and zero-in on codes to focus on for training and system transition.
 Unlock the historical ICD-9-CM coded data. Mapping can facilitate the linking of over thirty years of ICD-9-CM coded data which is the key to reimbursement trending, retrospective audits, episode of care coding, and financial planning.
 Links ICD-9-CM codes to all valid ICD-10-CM alternatives. Convenient look-up tool for verifying code choices in the new code system.
 Combination and scenario mappings. Codes are grouped and highlighted for easy translation.
 Must-have resource to update your office's coding and billing tools. Choose the right codes to convert super bills, forms, reports, and EHRs/PHRs that meet your specific clinical and coding criteria.
 Software validation. Use this mapping tool to verify software accuracy, evaluate new software, and assist in conversion planning. 
 Easy-to-use table format. Lists ICD-9-CM codes with titles and the corresponding ICD-10-CM codes with titles.

ICD-10-CM Mapping -- 2015

Guide to Clinical Validation, Documentation and Coding 2015 For decades, coders have sought a concise, reliable and easy-to-follow tool for those problematic diagnoses and inpatient procedures that are most often questioned by payers. Now there is a unique new resource that provides the clinical criteria necessary for code assignment. This new tool also describes the clinical documentation needed for determining if the condition is a complication, or when a medical condition should be coded as an additional diagnosis. Now coders, utilization review staff and HIM managers can systematically evaluate the clinical criteria that influence code assignments and patient care.
 Key Features and Benefits
 Covers 50 of the most challenging inpatient medical diagnoses and procedures.
 Provides detailed clinical criteria and physician documentation requirements needed to justify code assignments.
 Helps craft physician queries that address fine distinctions in a patient's medical condition and ensure appropriate reimbursement.
 Provides a detailed clinical description of problematic diagnoses or procedures --from a coder's perspective--plus the clinical criteria that support code assignment.
 Assists coders in determining what clinical elements are necessary for initial diagnosis code assignment, when it should be coded as a complication and when the condition should be coded as an additional diagnosis.
 Identifies other terminology that would qualify for the ICD-10-PCS specific root operation term.

Guide to Clinical Validation, Documentation and Coding -- 2015

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Consolidate the coding process with the one-stop resource developed exclusively for those who code for ENT, allergy, and pulmonology. Co-produced with the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) , this comprehensive and easy-to-use guide includes 2017 CPT®, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM code sets specific to ENT, allergy, and pulmonology. Each specialty specific procedure code includes its official description and lay description, coding tips, terminology, cross-coding, and national Medicare relative value units. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy. 
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 New Optum360 Edge Documentation and Reimbursement Tips now included right on the page. Documentation and reimbursement information for procedures included for quick reference. 
Optum360 Edge HCPCS Procedure Codes. Only Optum360 offers HCPCS procedure codes specific to your specialty with the same information as we provide for CPT® codes. 
Quickly find information. All the information you need is provided, including illustrations, lay descriptions, coding tips, terms, cross-coding, and Medicare RVUs and Pub. 100 references.
Organized by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code. Essential procedures for ENT, allergy, and pulmonology are listed by CPT® or HCPCS procedure code, along with crosswalks to ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes. 
Easily determine fees for your practice and reinforce consistency in the charges. National Medicare relative value units for surgery codes and most diagnostic procedures are included. 
Avoid claim denials and/or audits. Medicare payer information provides the references to Pub. 100 guidelines, follow-up days, and assistant-at-surgery. 
CCI Edits by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code. CPT® and HCPCS procedure codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online. 
CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

Coding Companion for ENT/Allergy/Pulmonology 2017

The Coding and Payment Guide for the Physical Therapist is your one-stop coding, billing, and documentation guide to submitting claims with greater precision and efficiency. Co-produced with the American Physical Therapy Association, this guide has the latest 2017 physical therapy CPT® and HCPCS procedure, ICD-10-CM and HCPCS Level II code sets along with Medicare payer information, CCI edits, helpful code descriptions, and clinical definitions.
 Key Features and Benefits
 Optum360 Edge Documentation and Reimbursement Tips. Find documentation and reimbursement information for procedures on the page for quick reference. 
Optum360 Edge HCPCS Procedure Codes. Only Optum360 offers HCPCS procedure codes specific to your specialty with the same information as we provide for CPT® codes. 
Avoid confusion with easy-to-understand descriptions. Includes clear explanations of procedures represented by CPT® and HCPCS procedure codes, along with clinical definitions and ICD-10-CM code explanations specific to physical therapy. 
Prevent claim denials and stay up-to-date with Medicare payer information. Review Medicare Pub. 100 references containing information linked to HCPCS Level II and CPT® codes tailored to physical therapy, to prepare cleaner claims before submission. 
Improve the precision of ICD-10-CM code selection. Prevent claim denials often caused by incorrect code selection with icons that help identify the most appropriate ICD-10-CM code. 
Easily determine fees for your practice and reinforce consistency in the charges. National Medicare relative value units for surgery codes and most diagnostic procedures are included. 
CCI Edits by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code. CPT® and HCPCS procedure codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online. 
CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

Coding and Payment Guide for the Physical Therapist 2017

Consolidate the coding process with the Coding Companion, your one-stop resource developed exclusively for those who code for general surgery and gastroenterology. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide includes 2018 CPT®, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM code sets specific to your specialty. Each specialty-specific procedure code includes its official description and lay description, coding tips, terminology, cross-coding to common ICD-10-CM, and relative value units. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy.
 Key Features and Benefits
 New Code icons. Quickly identify new, revised and add-on procedure codes related to general surgery and gastroenterology.
 New CPT® Assistant references. Identifies that an article or discussion of the CPT code has been in the American Medical Association s CPT Assistant newsletter. Use the citation to locate the correct volume.
 Optum360 Edge HCPCS procedure codes. Only Optum360 offers HCPCS procedure codes specific to your specialty with the same information as we provide for CPT codes.
 Quickly find information. All the information you need is provided, including illustrations, lay descriptions, coding tips, terms, cross-coding, Medicare RVUs and Pub. 100 references.
 Organized by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code. Essential procedures for general surgery and gastroenterology are listed by CPT® or HCPCS procedure code, along with crosswalks to common ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes.
 Easily determine fees for your practice and reinforce consistency in the charges. Relative value units including the practice, work, and malpractice components with total RVUs for non-facility and facility for procedures are included.
 Avoid claim denials and/or audits. Medicare payer information provides the references to Pub. 100 guidelines, follow-up days, and assistant-at-surgery.
 CCI edits by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code. CPT® and HCPCS procedure codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online.
 CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

Coding Companion for General Surgery/Gastroenterology 2018

Consolidate the coding process with the Coding Companion, your one-stop resource developed exclusively for those who code for primary care, pediatrics and emergency medicine. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide includes 2018 CPT®, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM code sets specific to your specialty. Each specialty-specific procedure code includes its official description and lay description, coding tips, terminology, cross-coding to common ICD-10-CM, and relative value units. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy.
 Key Features and Benefits
 New Code icons. Quickly identify new, revised and add-on procedure codes related to primary care, pediatrics and emergency medicine.
 New CPT® Assistant references. Identifies that an article or discussion of the CPT code has been in the American Medical Association s CPT Assistant newsletter. Use the citation to locate the correct volume.
 Optum360 Edge HCPCS procedure codes. Only Optum360 offers HCPCS procedure codes specific to your specialty with the same information as we provide for CPT codes.
 Quickly find information. All the information you need is provided, including illustrations, lay descriptions, coding tips, terms, cross-coding, Medicare RVUs and Pub. 100 references.
 Organized by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code. Essential procedures for primary care, pediatrics and emergency medicine are listed by CPT® or HCPCS procedure code, along with crosswalks to common ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes.
 Easily determine fees for your practice and reinforce consistency in the charges. Relative value units including the practice, work, and malpractice components with total RVUs for non-facility and facility for procedures are included.
 Avoid claim denials and/or audits. Medicare payer information provides the references to Pub. 100 guidelines, follow-up days, and assistant-at-surgery.
 CCI edits by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code.CPT® and HCPCS procedure codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online.
 CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

Coding Companion for Primary Care/Pediatrics/Emergency Medicine 2018

Consolidate the coding process with the Coding Companion, your one-stop resource developed exclusively for those who code for oncology and hematology. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide includes 2018 CPT®, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM code sets specific to your specialty. Each specialty-specific procedure code includes its official description and lay description, coding tips, terminology, cross-coding to common ICD-10-CM, and relative value units. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy. Key Features and Benefits
 New Code icons. Quickly identify new, revised and add-on procedure codes related to oncology and hematology.
 New CPT® Assistant references. Identifies that an article or discussion of the CPT code has been in the American Medical Association s CPT Assistant newsletter. Use the citation to locate the correct volume.
 Optum360 Edge HCPCS procedure codes. Only Optum360 offers HCPCS procedure codes specific to your specialty with the same information as we provide for CPT codes.
 Quickly find information. All the information you need is provided, including illustrations, lay descriptions, coding tips, terms, cross-coding, Medicare RVUs and Pub. 100 references.
 Organized by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code. Essential procedures for oncology and hematology are listed by CPT® or HCPCS procedure code, along with crosswalks to common ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes.
 Easily determine fees for your practice and reinforce consistency in the charges. Relative value units including the practice, work, and malpractice components with total RVUs for non-facility and facility for procedures are included.
 Avoid claim denials and/or audits. Medicare payer information provides the references to Pub. 100 guidelines, follow-up days, and assistant-at-surgery.
 CCI edits by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code. CPT® and HCPCS procedure codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online.
 CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

Coding Companion for Oncology/Hematology 2018

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