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General Surgery Coding Alert

CPT 2011 Clip and Save Chart:

Master General Surgery Changes -- Start Today

Published on Fri Oct 22, 2010

Put this at-a-glance tool in your coding toolbox for the new year.Avoid denials in 2011 by using this chart to quickly grasp the CPT code changes affecting your general surgery practice. CPT 2011 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 hiatal hernia repair and endovascular revascularization," 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 in Seattle.Keep this chart close by to use as a handy reference tool throughout the year.
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