2020 Coding Coach: The Complete Ophthalmic Reference

Avoid costly coding errors and maximize reimbursement with the Academy’s complete ophthalmology-specific coding reference. Coding Coach consolidates the necessary information you need for a given procedure in one accurate source. The Coding Coach print version or 12-month online subscription, is a must-have ‘one-stop’ resource that helps you:: Save time by consolidating information found in numerous sources Increase your coding accuracy and practice profitability Coding Coach provides you with the following information:: CPT to diagnosis code links Assistance-at-surgery coverage Associated procedures CCI edits (updated quarterly in the online version) CPT® codes and descriptors Definitions for the layperson Global periods for federal and commercial payers HCPCS code links Helpful coding clues Modifier usage RVUs for the office and facility Site-of-service differential Images The print edition of the Coding Coach comes as a spiral-bound, three-volume set. The content is arranged by CPT code (e.g. 65400) but each volume includes an alphabetical index of procedures to help you find the numerical equivalent quickly (e.g. Lesion:: Cornea, excision, 65400). Volume 1 covers integumentary, musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive and nervous systems that are related to the eye. Volume 2 covers eye and ocular adnexa. Volume 3 covers radiology, special testing, spectacle services (including prosthesis aphakia), Category III codes, HCPCS codes and miscellaneous codes.