The Field Guide to Physician Coding 4th Edition (2018)
"All Physicians can increase their revenue and improve their compensation through accurate coding. This book tells you how."
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All Physicians can increase their revenue and improve their compensation through accurate coding.
The Field Guide to Physician Coding, 4th Edition delivers a payload of precise information on coding rules and relevant billing guidelines. Betsy Nicoletti selects topics that answer the questions she is asked most frequently in her speaking and consulting work. Her explanations are clear and detailed and tell the practice what it needs to know to code for services. Nicoletti also steers you to critical source documents for today's coding rules so you don't have to spend hours hunting for key facts in long official documents.
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This book is organized, in a way that makes looking up topics easy. The book simplifies complex coding rules and provides source citations for the reader.
NEW AND UPDATED FOR THIS EDITION!
Anticoagulation management coding
Care management for behavioral conditions
Non-face-to-face prolonged services CPT codes
Prolonged services for wellness visits, new HCPCS codes
Psychiatric collaborative care coding
Cognitive assessment and care plan services
Chronic care management
Critical care
Global surgical package
Coding drives revenue in medical practices and physician compensation, and as you know, coding is also a risky endeavor because of the necessity to do it right.
There is Complexity: coding is complex and practices find it hard to be certain if they are doing it correctly.
There is Change: the codes and rules change every year and a practice needs to stay up to date.
And there is Concept: this is a book that explains the concepts that drive coding.
Designed with the most common coding issues that plague medical practices in mind, Betsy Nicoletti's "No-nonsense" advice supported by weblinks that answers the most pressing questions from physicians, practice managers, billers, and coders.
The "rules" that help doctors get paid, not just the codes
Organized alphabetically, by topic, for ease of use
Relevant to all specialties
Detailed explanations
Each entry includes:
The definition of the service
Explanation of billing rules
Key points
Clinical examples, when relevant
CPT or CMS references
With The Field Guide to Physician Coding, 4th Edition, there is a confidence that the claims sent to the insurance company are accurate and compliant. Sleep well knowing that your practice is compliant with government rules and you're collecting all of the money you are entitled to collect!
"This book should be on the desk of every clinician, biller and coder in the country!"
About the author
Betsy Nicoletti, MS, CPC, president of Medical Practice Consulting, is a practice management author, speaker, and consultant whose mission is to help doctors get paid. Besides doing auditing and compliance work, she excels at making complicated coding concepts easy for clinicians to understand and use. She also is the founder of www.codingintel.com, a coding library for physician practices.
Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN)
- Advance Care Planning
- Anticoagulation Management
- Assistant at Surgery Services
- Care Management for Behavioral Health Conditions
- Care Plan Oversight (CPO) – CPT® Codes (Non-Medicare)
- Care Plan Oversight for Medicare Patients
- Category of Code Charts
- Certification of Home Health Services
- Cerumen Removal
- Chronic Care Management
- CLIA Waived Tests
- Cloning Notes in an Electronic Health Record
- Cognitive Assessment and Care Plan Services
- Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT)
- Consolidated Nursing Home Billing
- Consultations
- Critical Care Services
- Diagnosis Coding
- Documentation Guidelines
- Emergency Department Visits
- Evaluation and Management Services and Profiles
- Foot Care: Routine
- General Principles of Medical Record Documentation
- Global Surgical Package
- Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
- Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs)
- Hospital Discharge Services
- Hospital Initial Services, Inpatient
- Hospital Observation Services
- Hospital Subsequent Services
- ICD-10-CM
- Immunization Administration for Vaccinations
- Incident to Services (Medicare)
- Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs)
- Locum Tenens Billing
- Medical Necessity
- Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database (MPFSDB)
- Mini Mental Status Exam
- Modifier 22
- Modifier 24
- Modifier 25
- Modifier 26
- Modifier 33
- Modifier 50
- Modifier 51
- Modifier 52
- Modifier 53
- Modifier 58
- Modifier 59
- Modifier 78 and Modifier 79
- Modifier PT
- Multiple Endoscopic Procedures
- Multiple Surgical Procedures
- National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI)
- National Coverage Determinations (NCDs)
- New Patient
- Nurse Visit
- Nursing Facility Visits
- Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment
- Pelvic and Breast Clinical Exam
- Pre-operative Exams
- Preventive Medicine Services
- Preventive Medicine Services (Medicare)
- Prolonged Services
- Prolonged Services for Non-Face-to-Face Care
- Prolonged Services for Preventive Care (HCPCS)
- Psychiatric Collaborative Care Management Services
- Reviewing Medical Records
- Shared Visits (Medicare)
- Smoking Cessation Counseling
- Teaching Physician Rules Based on Time
- Teaching Physician Rules for Critical Care Services
- Teaching Physician Rules for Evaluation and Management Codes
- Teaching Physician Rules for Medical Students
- Teaching Physician Rules for Primary Care Exception
- Teaching Physician Rules for Surgical Procedures
- Telephone Calls
- Time-based Codes
- Transitional Care Management (TCM) Services
- Welcome to Medicare
- Wellness Visits: Initial and Subsequent
- Index
Words of praise
Every practicing physician will find this book the perfect resource for documentation and coding, just as I've found Betsy Nicoletti to be the perfect resource. Nicoletti puts complicated concepts into very practical terms. Keep the book close at hand for a chapter-by-chapter reference when questions arise
Betsy Nicoletti understands how physicians think. This is an excellent resource for physicians and coders alike.
Working with Betsy Nicoletti for years, I know that you can rely on her advice regarding coding and auditing. She’s a pro’s pro!
