Ensure accurate billing and prompt payment with the 2008 edition of this indispensable practice tool. The 13th edition provides fast and easy access to all new and updated Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) and International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes.

Updates to include best practice principles of coding for 2008 The most extensive revision to coding for Pediatrics ever!

Product Highlights:

• New E/M coding grids to assist with the application of the E/M documentation and coding guidelines
  
• New chapter presentation of CPT and ICD-9-CM codes for 2008
  
• Self-study guide within each chapter to allow the reader to test their coding skills
  
• All new clinical vignettes to assist the reader in understanding the application of coding guidelines
  
• New chapter on Category II (Pay-for-Performance) and Category III codes
  
• Coding Toolkit with myriad sample documentation forms, letters to insurance carriers, and newly updated sick encounter progress note.
  
• New chapter on the Business of Medicine including: Charge Accumulation System, Monitoring Payments, Appeal Process, Negotiating, and Tools for the Practice

Contents include:

• Evaluation and Management Services
• Modifiers and Coding Edits
  
• Non E/M Services including surgical, pathology, laboratory, and medical procedures
  
• Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS)
  
• Newborn and Critical Care Services
  
• Emergency Department Services
  
• Compliance for the Pediatrician

Target Market(s):

• Pediatricians, Family Physicians,
  
• Physician assistants and pediatric nurse practitioners
  
• Pediatric office managers, administrators and coding specialists