Abstract: | The Coding and Payment Guide for Laboratory Services is your one-stop coding, billing, and documentation guide to submitting claims with greater precision and efficiency. This guide has the latest laboratory and pathology-specific, 2018 CPT and HCPCS procedure, ICD-10-CM and HCPCS Level II code sets along with Medicare payer information, CCI edits, helpful code descriptions, and clinical definitions. New Code icons. Quickly identify new, revised and add-on procedure codes related to lab and pathology. New CPT Assistant references. Identifies that an article or discussion of the CPT code has been in the American Medical Association s CPT Assistant newsletter. Use the citation to locate the correct volume. ... Easily determine fees for your practice and reinforce consistency in the charges. Relative value units including the practice, work, and malpractice components with total RVUs for non-facility and facility for procedures and Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule references are included. CCI edits by CPT and HCPCS procedure code. CPT and HCPCS procedure codes with associated CCI edits in a special section and quarterly updates available online. |
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