The Field Guide to Physician Coding, 4th Edition - Betsy Nicoletti

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Résumé :

All Physicians can increase their revenue and improve their compensation through accurate coding. This book tells you how.
The Field Guide to Physician Coding, 4th Edition delivers a payload of precise information on coding rules and relevant billing guidelines. Betsy Nicoletti selects topics that answer the questions she is asked most frequently in her speaking and consulting work. Her explanations are clear and detailed and tell the practice what it needs to know to code for services. Nicoletti also steers you to critical source documents for today's coding rules so you don't have to spend hours hunting for key facts in long official documents.
This book is organized, in a way that makes looking up topics easy. The book simplifies complex coding rules and provides source citations for the reader.


NEW AND UPDATED FOR THIS EDITION!

Anticoagulation management coding

Care management for behavioral conditions

Non-face-to-face prolonged services CPT codes

Prolonged services for wellness visits, new HCPCS codes

Psychiatric collaborative care coding

Cognitive assessment and care plan services

Chronic care management

Critical care

Global surgical package





Coding drives revenue in medical practices and physician compensation, and as you know, coding is also a risky endeavor because of the necessity to do it right.

There is Complexity: coding is complex, and practices find it hard to be certain if they are doing it correctly. There is Change: the codes and rules change every year and a practice needs to stay up to date. And there is Concept: this is a book that explains the concepts that drive coding.

Designed with the most common coding issues that plague medical practices in mind, Betsy Nicoletti's No-nonsense advice supported by weblinks that answers the most pressing questions from physicians, practice managers, billers and coders.




The rules that help doctors get paid, not just the codes

Organized alphabetically, by topic, for ease of use

Relevant to all specialties

Detailed explanations





Each entry includes:


The definition of the service

Explanation of billing rules

Key points

Clinical examples, when relevant

CPT or CMS references



With The Field Guide to Physician Coding, 4th Edition, there is a confidence that the claims sent to the insurance company are accurate and compliant. Sleep well knowing that your practice is compliant with government rules and you're collecting all the money you are entitled to collect!





This book should be on the desk of every clinician, biller and coder in the country!

Biographie:
Betsy Nicoletti, MS, CPC, has extensive auditing experience in physician services, ensuring that code selection accurately reflects the services performed.
Joking that she is in the protection business, Betsy explains that her mission is to simplify complex coding and reimbursement rules for medical practices, thereby protecting physician practices. She is the author of The Field Guide to Physician Coding, now in its third edition, and Everyday Medical Coding, as well as a regular journal contributor. Betsy also speaks to groups on the national scene. When speaking to clinicians, she engages them with an in-depth knowledge of their professional lives. When speaking to fellow auditors, she guides them through the nuances of finding black and white answers in a morass of gray guidelines.
Betsy, who began her consulting business in 1999, has a master's degree in Organization and Management from Antioch New England and is a Certified Professional Coder. She is a member of the Medical Group Management Association and the National Speakers Association. She lives in New England with her dog. Betsy can be reached at www.betsynicoletti.com. You can read her blog at www.nicolettinotes.com.