Main description:

Avoid costly coding errors and maximize reimbursement with the Academy's complete ophthalmology-specific coding reference. Coding Coach consolidates the necessary information you need for a given procedure in one accurate source.

The Coding Coach print version or 12-month online subscription, is a must-have 'one-stop' resource that helps you:

Save time by consolidating information found in numerous sources
Increase your coding accuracy and practice profitability

Coding Coach provides you with the following information:

CPT to diagnosis code links
Assistance-at-surgery coverage
Associated procedures
CCI edits (updated quarterly in the online version)
CPT (R) codes and descriptors
Definitions for the layperson
Global periods for federal and commercial payers
HCPCS code links
Helpful coding clues
Modifier usage
RVUs for the office and facility
Site-of-service differential
Images

The print edition of the Coding Coach comes as a spiral-bound, three-volume set. The content is arranged by CPT code (e.g. 65400) but each volume includes an alphabetical index of procedures to help you find the numerical equivalent quickly (e.g. Lesion: Cornea, excision, 65400).

Volume 1 covers integumentary, musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive and nervous systems that are related to the eye.
Volume 2 covers eye and ocular adnexa.
Volume 3 covers radiology, special testing, spectacle services (including prosthesis aphakia), Category III codes, HCPCS codes and miscellaneous codes.