Boost your accuracy rate with this guide - exclusively for orthopedic surgery coders
Make sure you're on top of your coding game with The Coding Institute's 2008 Orthopedic Surgery Coder's Survival Guide, an easy-to-read, how-to manual tailored specifically to help you select the appropriate orthopedic code every time. Each chapter is packed with practical tips, strategies and tricks of the trade that you can try immediately to benefit your practice.
This must-have guide breaks down and discusses your most frequently performed orthopedic services to insurance carriers - specifically Medicare Part B - and outlines all the steps you should take to report them accurately. Here are just a few of the topics you'll learn about:
Our step-by-step arthrodesis guide takes you from interspace reporting rules to can't miss 22800-22812 exceptions.
Are you your practice's spinal bone graft coding champ? Check out this tip on reporting multiple grafting codes.
Having trouble distinguishing kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty? We've got the cure.
You could be losing $500 per bilateral laminotomy claim. We show you the simple solution.
Arthroscopic and open procedures for one RCR patient? There's more to coding these than you think.
Nail down the difference between segmental and nonsegmental to keep instrumentation claims clean.
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