[1] the cpt code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among physicians, coders, patients, accreditation organizations, and payers for administrative, financial, and analytical purposes. Department of health and human services The healthcare common procedure coding system (hcpcs, often pronounced by its acronym as hick picks) is a set of health care procedure codes based on the american medical association 's current procedural terminology (cpt).
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The cpt committee issues new codes twice each year
A separate committee, the specialty society relative value scale update committee (ruc), [7] meets three times a year to set new values, [8] determines the relative value units (rvus) for each new code, and revalues all existing codes at least once every five years.
The national correct coding initiative (ncci) is a centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms) program designed to prevent improper payment of procedures that should not be submitted together [1] there are two categories of edits A medical classification is used to transform descriptions of medical diagnoses or procedures into standardized statistical code in a process known as clinical coding Diagnosis classifications list diagnosis codes, which are used to track diseases and other health conditions, inclusive of chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and heart disease, and infectious diseases such as norovirus.
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