Cpt Coding Categories Paper
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Describing CPT Coding Categories
What type of procedures or services are included in each of the three CPT code categories?
Provide one example for each category in your description.
Category I Codes
Codes—which are the most numerous—have five digits (with no decimals). Each code has a descriptor, which is a brief explanation of the procedure:
99204 Office visit for evaluation and management of a new patient
00730 Anesthesia for procedures on upper posterior abdominal wall
24006 Arthrotomy of the elbow, with capsular excision for capsular release
70100 Radiologic examination of the mandible
80400 ACTH stimulation panel; for adrenal insufficiency
93000 Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; with interpretation and report.
In my understanding or easier to put …show more content…
Category 1 Code is about these six procedure that can be changed in the scene of how it work for them best this explains a surgical physician and plain doctor office and use these same examples and use the codes to the advantage of there office. These codes are the universal codes to have a better understanding of how the codes should be used and why.
Category II Codes
Codes are used to track performance measures for a medical goal such as reducing tobacco use.
These codes are optional; they are not paid by insurance carriers. They help in the development of best practices for care and improve documentation. These codes have alphabetic characters for the fifth digit:
0002F Tobacco use, smoking, assessed
0004F Tobacco use cessation intervention, counseling
In the understanding of the category 11 codes, these codes are used to track the understanding of what the patient is doing and what the updates are to the procedures of what the patient is getting for there help. These codes are to give a code to the understanding or treatment of what a person with substance abuse is getting. These codes are also used in the understanding that the patient will be paying for the care that is given to them.
Category III Codes
Codes are temporary codes for emerging technology, services, and procedures. These codes also have alphabetic characters for the fifth digit:
0001T Endovascular repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm or dissection
0041T Urinalysis infectious agent
detection
These codes are made as they go when it comes to the emerging technology, services, and procedures. These are the codes that are made when there isn’t a code to be given when it comes to a new procedure or service. Everyday doctors are learning new things and describing different ways of doing things. These are the codes that are developed that a later date might be used all the time.
Describing CPT Coding Categories
What type of procedures or services are included in each of the three CPT code categories?
Provide one example for each category in your description.
Category I Codes
Codes—which are the most numerous—have five digits (with no decimals). Each code has a descriptor, which is a brief explanation of the procedure:
99204 Office visit for evaluation and management of a new patient
00730 Anesthesia for procedures on upper posterior abdominal wall
24006 Arthrotomy of the elbow, with capsular excision for capsular release
70100 Radiologic examination of the mandible
80400 ACTH stimulation panel; for adrenal insufficiency
93000 Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; with interpretation and report.
In my understanding or easier to put …show more content…
Category 1 Code is about these six procedure that can be changed in the scene of how it work for them best this explains a surgical physician and plain doctor office and use these same examples and use the codes to the advantage of there office. These codes are the universal codes to have a better understanding of how the codes should be used and why.
Category II Codes
Codes are used to track performance measures for a medical goal such as reducing tobacco use.
These codes are optional; they are not paid by insurance carriers. They help in the development of best practices for care and improve documentation. These codes have alphabetic characters for the fifth digit:
0002F Tobacco use, smoking, assessed
0004F Tobacco use cessation intervention, counseling
In the understanding of the category 11 codes, these codes are used to track the understanding of what the patient is doing and what the updates are to the procedures of what the patient is getting for there help. These codes are to give a code to the understanding or treatment of what a person with substance abuse is getting. These codes are also used in the understanding that the patient will be paying for the care that is given to them.
Category III Codes
Codes are temporary codes for emerging technology, services, and procedures. These codes also have alphabetic characters for the fifth digit:
0001T Endovascular repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm or dissection
0041T Urinalysis infectious agent
detection
These codes are made as they go when it comes to the emerging technology, services, and procedures. These are the codes that are made when there isn’t a code to be given when it comes to a new procedure or service. Everyday doctors are learning new things and describing different ways of doing things. These are the codes that are developed that a later date might be used all the time.