CPT® Changes 2018: An Insiders View
English
By (author): American Medical Association
AMA is the authority to turn to when seeking an official interpretation and explanation for a CPT code or guideline change.
Know the changes inside and out. Avoid and reduce claim denials.
Features and Benefits
- Organizational structure similar to the CPT codebook allows coders to easily conduct a side-by-side read of CPT® Changes with the CPT® Professional
- Official AMA rationales provide a detailed explanation for the code or guideline change
- Clinical examples, procedural descriptions and illustrations help explain the practical application for each change
- At-a-glance summary table of the 2018 changes in each section shows the extent to which that changes affect a particular specialty
- Serves as a good cross-reference for the latest edition of the CPT codebook by providing users with extended and practical explanations and applications for each change in the codebook
- Consolidates and condenses all of the changes from the latest codebook
- Provides reasons why and how a code may have been revised, deleted and added, and the implication of the changes to a user
- Provides descriptions of the services and/or procedures of typical clinical examples to showcase or highlight these changes in order to illustrate how to use and report the new and/or revised codes