2025 Procedural Coding Expert
Improve your CPT® coding efficiency and protect your reimbursement with AAPC’s Procedural Coding Expert 2025. This comprehensive code book lays out the complete 2025 CPT® code set with full code descriptors, E/M coding advice, CPT® to HCPCS Level II G code crosswalks, CPT® and HCPCS Level II modifiers with definitions and tips, and so much more.
Designed for working coders, our unique symbols and aggregate data provide a tremendous amount of ancillary information below every code. For years, physician practices, outpatient hospitals, and ASCs have relied on AAPC’s Procedural Coding Expert as their preferred CPT® code book.
Key features and benefits
- Official 2025 AMA CPT® codes and nomenclature — Including a summary of new, revised, and deleted codes and advice
- Official 2025 AMA E/M guidelines and appendices — Get the official wording to ensure you’re following AMA standards
- Add-on code symbols indicate if a code needs to be used in conjunction with an existing code
- Modifier icons quickly identify if a code is exempt from modifier 51 or 63
- Facility and non-facility RVUs and global days, MUEs, and ASC payment indicators — Accurately report to Medicare with guidance from the Medicare Fee Schedule
- Helpful illustrations — View color images at the beginning of the book for anatomical references, plus view detailed illustrations throughout the chapters to help you understand the procedures and body parts in each section
- Code-specific definitions, rules, and references — Review comprehensive information to assist with accurate coding and speedy reimbursement
- CPT® Assistant citations — Locate AMA guidance as published in the CPT® Assistant using citations with each referenced code
- Multiple appendices provide insightful information such as crosswalks for deleted codes, resequenced codes, vaccines associated with CPT® codes, the DEA Drug Class List, telemedicine coding, and a handy E/M audit sheet
- Extensive user-friendly Index — Find codes in a flash with the most accurate and expansive index of any CPT® coding resource, with terms listed in a variety of ways
- Color-coded symbols for new and revised codes — Plus icons showing male, female, and maternity procedures;, add-on codes; resequenced codes; FDA approval pending codes; Merit-Based Incentive Payment (MIPS) system codes; and telemedicine codes
- Colorful orientation lines help you navigate indentations in the Index
- eBook features include full searchability, easy bookmarking of pages, highlighting, and notation
- eBook reader preferences allow customizable font size, toggling between day or night mode, and sharing of notes with other users
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