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Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — June 2007
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CPT 2007; outpatient services.

Ed. by Grace M. Kotowicz.
American Medical Association, ©2005    388 p.    $62.95    RB115
978-1-57947-798-1

This is a specially annotated version of the CPT 2007 codebook, to be used as an outpatient reporting reference by all health care providers (including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and outpatient provider-based facilities owned by hospitals) participating in the Medicare program as part of the requirement to follow the policies under Medicare's Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). It uses a systematic format to introduce the CMS reporting changes occurring in the medical practice, offers instructions for reporting each CPT code under OPPS, and discusses changes in technology, addition of new services, new cost data, and other issues. Numerous appendices offer information on add-on codes, the 2007 APC groupings of clinically relevant procedures and services, symbols for inpatient-only CPT procedure codes and bilateral procedure modifier use/nonuse, and genetic testing code modifiers. This edition includes expanded CPT Assistant newsletter and CPT Changes book citations. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

CPT; reference of clinical examples, official scenarios for correct coding.

American Medical Association, ©2007    376 p.    $99.95    RB115
978-1-57947-874-2

This reference published by the American Medical Association explains approximately 425 of the most common Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for those working in clinical settings. Each code is accompanied by a short description, a clinical example, information on pre- intra- and post-service reporting, as well as its assigned work value and global period. Codes are organized under the following categories: evaluation and management, anesthesia, surgery, radiology, pathology and laboratory, and medicine. Additional information on the implementation and categorization on CPT codes is also included, along with a brief list of codes. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Medicare RBRVS; the physicians' guide, 2007.

Ed. by Sherry L. Smith et al.
American Medical Association, ©2007    552 p.    $87.95    R728
978-1-57947-811-7

This guide introduces the way Medicare pays for physicians' services under the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) payment system, and explains the main components of the payment system. Tables in the second half of the book list the relative value units and Medicare payments for each CPT code. The 16th edition reflects new payment rules and 2007 relative values. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)