General Surgery Coding Alert

Avoid denials in 2010 by using this chart to quickly grasp the CPT code changes affecting your general surgery practice.CPT 2010 provides some timely changes to fill some coding "gaps" that may have troubled your practice. "You'll find new codes to help you accurately report services that didn't have clear coding before now, such as lap paraesophageal hernia repair and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy," says Marcella Bucknam, CPC, CCS-P, CPC-H, CCS, CPC-P, COBGC, CCC, manager of compliance education for the University of Washington Physicians Compliance Program.

Keep this chart close by to use as a handy reference tool throughout the year.