So Many Books, So Little Time - Part 3
Yes, it's true. There are so many books and so little time, I haven't even had time to blog for the last two weeks because I had my nose in two of them. Thank God for smartphones and long waits at the car wash, or who knows how much longer it would been before I posted again! In my first post of this series , I gave one of my favorite quotes: "ICD is from Mars, HCPCS is from Venus." So let's move on to Venus for a bit. Don't worry, we'll be back to Mars, but I like to talk about the present before I talk about the future (ICD-10), so let's get on with it. I apologize for the length of this post, but I have a lot to say today! Three Levels of HCPCS The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) has three different levels and just to make things more interesting, Level I is not usually called HCPCS, it's called CPT. The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) was developed and is maintained by the American Medical Association (AMA). By Phys...