Provides practical guidance for orthopaedic practices for billing specialty services to Medicare and other payers. This manual brings together billing rules and instructions governing orthopaedic services and demonstrates correct and incorrect claim form entries. Serves as a detailed reference for the CMS-1500 form for accurate claims submission.

• Find specialty-specific billing instructions surgical, imaging, diagnostic and E/M services 
• Prevent unnecessary claim payment delays when billing errors allow payers to prolong the revenue cycle.
• Find reimbursement information fast. Quickly locate billing topics based on field locators, or billing terminology.
• Identify billing inconsistencies based on OCE and CCI data.
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