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• UNIQUE! Current Dental Terminology (CDT) codes from the American Dental Association (ADA) offer one-step access to all dental codes.
• UNIQUE! Full-color anatomy plates (including Netter’s Anatomy illustrations) enhance your understanding of specific coding situations by helping you understand anatomy and physiology.
• Easy-to-use format optimizes reimbursement through quick, accurate, and efficient coding.
• At-a-glance code listings and distinctive symbols make it easy to identify new, revised, and deleted codes.
• Full-color design with color tables helps you locate and identify codes with speed and accuracy.
• Jurisdiction symbols show the appropriate contractor to be billed when submitting claims to Medicare carriers and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).
• Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) payment and status indicators show which codes are payable in the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System to ensure accurate reporting and appropriate reimbursement.
• Durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) indicators address reimbursement for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies.
• Drug code annotations identify brand-name drugs as well as drugs that appear on the National Drug Class (NDC) directory and other Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs.
• Age/sex edits identify codes for use only with patients of a specific age or sex.
• Quantity symbol indicates the maximum allowable units per day per patient in physician and outpatient hospital settings, as listed in the Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs) for enhanced accuracy on claims.
• The American Hospital Association Coding Clinic^® for HCPCS citations provide a reference point for information about specific codes and their usage.
• Physician Quality Reporting System icon identifies codes that are specific to PQRS measures.