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Q Fever! Book Review
Current Procedures & Terminology
(CPT) 2001
New edition offers plot twists, shocking surprise
ending
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CPT
2001, due in stores this December
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The highly anticipated 2001 edition of Current
Procedures & Terminology (CPT), to be released to the medical
community in December 2000, promises to live up to its hype with a dazzling
storyline, carefully developed characters, and an amazing ending that
will knock your socks off!
A pre-release copy of CPT 2001, while showing
some expected rough edges, reveals an older, wiser, and more reflective
American Medical Association, which has penned a new title in the CPT
series every year since 1996.
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Excerpt from CPT 2001
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| Modifier '-27' - Multiple Outpatient Hospital
E/M Encounters on the Same Date: For hospital outpatient reporting
purposes, utilization of hospital resources related to separate and
distinct E/M encounters performed in multiple outpatient hospital
settings on the same date may be reported by adding the modifier '-27'
to each appropriate level outpatient and/or emergency department E/M
code(s). This modifier provides a means of reporting circumstances
involving evaluation and management services provided by physician(s)
in more than one (multiple) outpatient hospital setting(s) (eg, hospital
emergency department, clinic). Note: This modifier is not to be used
for physician reporting of multiple E/M services performed by the
same physician on the same date. For physician reporting of all outpatient
evaluation and management services provided by the same physician
on the same date and performed in multiple outpatient setting(s) (eg,
hospital emergency department, clinic), see Evaluation and Management,
Emergency Department, or Preventive Medicine services codes. |
As if to rebuff the numerous critics who have suggested
that the worldwide box-office success of Oliver Stone's big-screen adaptation
of CPT 1999 ($270 million gross in the U.S. alone) has softened
the AMA's ability and desire to reach out to its core audience, CPT
2001 is angry and indignant in tone, while maintaining a masterful
undertone of deeply felt compassion and sorrow.
The plot is complex, but not more complex than in
the popular ICD-9 series; meanwhile, characters spring to life
on every page:
80048 Basic metabolic panel: This panel must include
the following: Calcium (82310) Carbon dioxide (82374) Chloride (82435)
Creatinine (82565) Glucose (82947) Potassium (84132) Sodium (84295) Urea
Nitrogen (BUN) (84520)
Add to this the drama of over 600+ new codes, and
the book (available in spiral or ring-binder formats) surges towards an
incredible and shocking climactic scene involving Code 64630 (Destruction
by neurolytic agent; pudendal nerve) and Code 90732 (Pneumococcal polysaccharide
vaccine, 23-valent, adult or immunosuppressed patient dosage, for subcutaneous
or intramuscular use), one that will have readers both crying and
laughing, as they stand and applaud!
CPT 2001 will be available in medical bookstores
everywhere, as well as on the internet via the AMA website.
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