[NEW! Sample Pages]

Take your procedural coding to the next level!  Well-designed and loaded with the help on coverage, modifier and global billing information you need at your fingertips every day, the Procedural Coding Expert will save you tremendous time and effort.

• ADDED! More Coding Tips—assists in adding clarity and easier code selection
• Best in Class Index—helps you find codes faster than any other CPT® reference
• Full codes and descriptions—all new 2011 new and revised CPT® codes with entire code description listed so you can avoid any confusion
• The MOST illustrations—more than 650 illustrations to provide greater insight to specific procedures and help you interpret clinical notes more effectively
• Five-Star introduction—loaded with essential information such as CPT® coding fundamentals, listing and description of modifiers, common medical abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes and roots, coding terms glossary, detailed explanation of all icons and data elements and multiple summary tables including code additions, deletions and revisions
• PQRI designation — code-level icons denote those codes and services subject to the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
• Detailed table of contents—an exhaustive listing of every chapter, section, table and illustration so you can locate important information quickly; plus each section includes a detailed Table of Contents for easy reference
• Extra help on new, revised and deleted codes—unique symbols identify new procedure codes and substantially altered procedure descriptions have a second icon to alert you.  Deleted codes are highlighted with a strikethrough and a valid cross-reference, if available
• Hundreds of references for guidance from the AMA’s CPT® Assistant and Medicare’s Pub 100 manuals integrated with the relevant codes—helps you validate code choices
• Relative Value Units (RVUs) and Medicare global follow-up days for each code, age and sex edit icons and icons—alert you to potential unbundling errors

• Format: Softbound
• Also available in Downloadable PDF Version format