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Introducing our Illustrated Coding and Billing Expert for Primary Care—chock-full of illustrations, coding tips and other valuable information to make your specialty coding easier and more efficient than ever. This is the code book you'll be reaching for again and again.

• The most illustrations of any specialty reference — one for every CPT® code/code range — gives visual clarification for coding
• CPT®, ICD-9-CM and HCPCS Level II Alphabetic Indexes — find the right tabular section quickly
• Comprehensive coding tips — assist in making the correct code choice
• Powerful crosswalks — select the appropriate anesthesia code linked to CPT® surgery codes and identify medical necessity with CPT® to ICD-9-CM crosswalk
• 2010 CPT®, ICD-9-CM and HCPCS Level II codes relevant to each respective specialty — speeds up your coding
• Plain English Descriptions — guides your code selection and verification and explains associated conditions or medical indications
• NCCI edits — helps identify which codes are bundled and which codes can be billed separately
• Code-specific RVUs — determine fees at a glance
• Pub 100 references, global days, assistant-at-surgery and prior approval requirements integrated with the associated CPT® code — code more efficiently
• Modifiers that are appropriate for each code from the RBRVS — know which modifiers can or cannot be used with each procedure