Streamline your coding process with all-in-one resources for your specialty. The Coding Companion provides the comprehensive information a coder/biller needs (ICD-9-CM, CPT® and HCPCS codes, and an anesthesia crosswalk), along with procedural definitions, coding and reimbursement tips, clinical information, CCI edits, Pubs 100 issues, and illustrations – all in a one-page format for surgical codes, along with most medicine codes related to each specific specialty.

• New! — Pubs 100 References (formerly known as MCM/CIM references). Keep current with Medicare coverage issues with Pubs 100 information specific to your specialty.
• Submit Claims with Current, Comprehensive Code Sets. Updated 2005 surgery, medicine, E/M, radiology and lab/path CPT® codes are included.
• Locate Information Faster. Essential procedures for your specialty are listed by CPT® code, along with crosswalks to HCPCS Level II, ICD-9-CM diagnostic and anesthesia codes.
• Reduce Coding Errors. Coding and modifier tips, along with annotations and definitions associated with surgical and medicine procedures help you identify the differences between codes that have comparable definitions.
• Facilitate Your Coding with Helpful Illustrations. Medical illustrations help you link operative report language to code definitions.
• Prevent Unbundling Mistakes by Staying Current with CCI Edits. Updates sent quarterly via e-mail help you identify which code combinations cannot be billed together and prevent unbundling to reduce the risk of audit. A set of CCI edits is published in the guide, followed by three FREE quarterly e-mail updates.