2024 Coding Companion® for Orthopaedics: Lower – Hips & Below

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Consolidate the coding process with the Coding Companion, your one-stop coding resource developed exclusively for orthopaedics. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide is updated for 2024 and organized by specialty-specific CPT^® codes. Each CPT^® code includes its official description and lay description, coding tip, Medicare edits, and relative value units and is crosscoded 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 (E/M) Services Guidelines – E/M codes are used every day in your practice. Now with CPT^® E/M Guidelines and our Optum Coding Tips, you have all the information you need to select the correct E/M code for the service provided.  
• 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.
• Procedure code icons – Quickly identify new, revised, add-on, and telemedicine procedure codes, making your coding process for procedures and E/M services quick and efficient.
• ICD-10-CM code icons – Icons identifying male and female only codes, as well as age-related and laterality 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 the total RVUs for non-facility and facility are included.
• 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.  
• 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 at Optumcoding.com Product Update / Support page.

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

Published: December 2023

Dimensions: 8.5” X 11” Spiral
ISBN: 978-1-62254-857-6