FEATURES AND BENEFITS
· MORE THAN A DECADE OF CODE UPDATES! This third edition features CPT® 2020 codes and descriptors from the Anesthesia, Surgery, Radiology, and Medicine sections of CPT® Professional and integrates them with more than 500 anatomical illustrations from the Netter collection. The second edition featured the 2009 code set.
· NEW ILLUSTRATIONS! New illustrations are featured in every chapter, with more than 100 new anatomical and procedural plates.
· ADDITIONAL CODE SECTION INCLUDED! Category III codes are now included, giving visual context to the relationship between anatomy and emerging technology, services, procedures, and service paradigms.
· Select CPT guidelines and instructional notes appear verbatim with the codes and illustrations while an appendix offers section opening guidelines for easy reference.
· Nomenclature notes help explain related terminology.
· A special symbol indicates when a procedural illustration exists for a code thereby allowing the reader to reference CPT® Professional for additional information.
· An appendix of abbreviations frequently found in CPT code descriptions and guidelines provide readers with information that can aid them in understanding documentation used to support code assignment.
· NEW EPONYMS APPENDIX! A procedural eponyms appendix gives not only a list of common eponyms found within the code set but a brief explanation of each procedure.
· NEW PROCEDURAL ILLUSTRATIONS APPENDIX! The inclusion of select procedural illustrations found inCPT® Professional helps readers make the visual connects between anatomy and procedure.
