Coding Companion for Cardiology/Cardiothoracic Surgery/Vascular Surgery 2020

Consolidate the coding process with the 2020 Coding Companion for Cardiology/Cardiothoracic/Vascular Surgery, your one-stop coding resource. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide is updated for 2020 and organized by specialty-specific CPT® codes. Each CPT® code includes its official description and lay description, coding tip, Medicare edits, relative value units and is cross-coded to common ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes to complete the coding process. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Evaluation and Management Services.

Evaluation and Management codes commonly used in your specialty are now included with their official description and lay description, coding tip, Medicare edits, and relative value units. Also included is a chapter with coding guidelines and tables to assist you in the E/M code selection process.

Code icons.

Quickly identify new, revised, and add-on procedure codes related to your specialty, and now New for 2020, an icon identifying ICD-10-CM codes that identify right, left, or bilateral options.

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.

Quickly find information.

All the information you need is provided with the CPT® code, including illustrations, lay descriptions, coding tips, clinical terms, Medicare RVUs and IOM references and commonly associated 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 are included.

Avoid claim denials and/or audits.

Medicare payer information includes references to Internet Only Manual (IOM) guidelines, follow-up days, and assistant-at-surgery.

CCI edits by CPT® and HCPCS procedure code.

CPT® and HCPCS procedure codes with their associated CCI edits are provided in a special section. Quarterly updates are available online.

CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.