Billing Companion for Orthopaedics

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2009 Edition
Softbound, 8.5" x 11"
Ingenix / APMA
ISBN 1601512260
978-1601512260
January 2009
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The Billing Companion provides practical guidance for practices billing professional services to Medicare and other payers - in your unique specialty area.

This manual compiles essential billing rules and instructions governing your specialty services and demonstrates correct and incorrect claim form entries, potential coding errors, modifier issues, and coverage rules.

In addition, the Billing Companion alerts you when specific information needs to be indicated on the CMS-1500 claim form for coverage of the service or procedure.

Quick and easy lookup. Find specialty-specific billing instructions for surgical, imaging, diagnostic, and E/M services.
Prevent unnecessary claim payment delays.
Improve claim accuracy and reduce coding errors.
Access reimbursement information.
Quickly locate billing topics based on procedure codes, coverage issues, or billing terminology.
CCI data updates. Identify billing inconsistencies based on CCI data.
Improve accuracy before submission. Receive specific billing and coverage guidance by procedure.

Ingenix offers practical results-oriented services for billing, coding, physician documentation, billing compliance, reimbursement, training services for hospitals and physicians, and more. Learn from the experts who help write the books other consultants are using.

Thousands of physicians and health care professionals rely on Ingenix for expert advice. Start benefiting from 100+ years of combined experience and expertise. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

Please remember: The government no longer allows a grace period for annual code sets. The new HIPAA Transaction and Code Set Rule requires providers to use national medical code sets that are valid at the time that a service is provided. ICD-9-CM code revisions become effective October 1st each year while CPT and HCPCS code revisions become effective January 1st. In order for you to meet this requirement, you must have the revised CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-9-CM codes in your possession before the implementation dates. The best way to do this is to order your code books early. Review current coding resources.

You may also be interested in combining this important book with the complete CodeManager software and coding data files.

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