• Improve your coding & billing
• Maximize your 3rd party payments
• HIPAA proof your transactions
   

Completely revised third edition of this best-selling reference book. Covers everything you need to know about the business and financial management of a medical practice. Covers all the basics from coding insurance and reimbursement to the more complex issues like managed care and health care reform. A must buy for every medical practice.

• Medical Acronyms, Eponyms & Abbreviations - Lists over 8,000 medical abbreviations, acronyms and eponyms with definitions to help you with coding, chart review, transcription and interpreting operative reports.
  
• CPT & HCPCS Coding - Covers service and procedure coding basics, coding and billing issues, coding evaluation and management services, and coding of surgery, radiology, laboratory and medicine services. Includes full-color anatomical charts with cross-references to CPT code sections.
  
• ICD-9-CM Coding - Covers diagnosis coding basics, special Medicare requirements for diagnosis coding, coding and billing issues, combination coding, suspected conditions, specialty coding, manifestations, and the use of V-codes and E-codes. Includes full-color anatomical charts with cross references to ICD-9-CM code sections.
  
• Coverage and Compliance - Lists over 4,000 CPT 2006 procedure codes with simple descriptions, follow-up periods, and billing indicators for supply charges, "add-on" procedures and assistant surgeon.
  
  

Over 285,000 National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits are used by CMS to review claims for unbundling and correctable coding errors. The National Correct Coding Manual makes it easy for you to determine if any two CPT/HCPCS codes may be billed together, with or without a modifier. Check code combinations before sending your claim forms to reduce denials. 

• Includes all active NCCI Column 1 and Column 2 CPT/HCPCS codes with symbols clarifying modifier usage 
  
• Extensive coverage of general and CPT section specific coding rules 
  
• Updated quarterly so your NCCI edits are always current Your subscription includes a new book each quarter for four consecutive quarters (January 2006 - December 2006)