Skirchberger
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I am very confused, and I am hoping that someone on here can assist me.
I am currently studying to prepare for my upcoming CPC exam, and I am using an AAPC study guide in addition to reading through my coding books, however, the study guide seems to be giving me much more information than is in the CPT coding book...in fact, it is giving me additional guidelines that are not found in the CPT coding book.
For example, according to the study guide CPT code 52234 includes biopsy but yet, I find absolutely NO mention of that information in any of the coding guidelines in the CPT coding book. This is EXTEMELY confusing to me because I was under the impression that ALL the coding guidelines would be included in the coding books! So, does this mean that there is a fair amount of guidelines that are not in the coding books? And if so, is there a way I can pull up a list of guidelines NOT found in the coding books so I can try to write them in the books? We can only have the coding books with us for the exam, and not knowing these added guidelines will cause me to fail the exam.
Thanks in advance.
I am currently studying to prepare for my upcoming CPC exam, and I am using an AAPC study guide in addition to reading through my coding books, however, the study guide seems to be giving me much more information than is in the CPT coding book...in fact, it is giving me additional guidelines that are not found in the CPT coding book.
For example, according to the study guide CPT code 52234 includes biopsy but yet, I find absolutely NO mention of that information in any of the coding guidelines in the CPT coding book. This is EXTEMELY confusing to me because I was under the impression that ALL the coding guidelines would be included in the coding books! So, does this mean that there is a fair amount of guidelines that are not in the coding books? And if so, is there a way I can pull up a list of guidelines NOT found in the coding books so I can try to write them in the books? We can only have the coding books with us for the exam, and not knowing these added guidelines will cause me to fail the exam.
Thanks in advance.