Cpt Coding

CPT Coding

The purpose of CPT coding is an accepted, world code that is useful to medical procedures and services purposely for the patient records.   “CPT codes are the same codes that doctors, hospitals, patients, insurance companies, and other third parties use,” (Marka G. Hayes, 2001).   It is used for reimbursement by the CPT codes will be utilized for determining the reimbursement amount which will be received by the practitioner.   Everybody uses the same code that mean the same thing, they are efficiency.   Efficiency understands what the service is and the amount that practitioners get reimbursed will not always be the same.   Let’s say for example that you went to see your doctor for a physical check up, code 99396, and you got reimbursed $100 by your insurance company.   You went to another doctor’s office for the same check up and his reimbursement might only be $90.
The history of CPT coding is it dates back in the 17th century.   In 1863, the International Statistical Institute established a standard system for classifying deaths.   “The list was prepared by a Paris statistician named Jacque Bertillon and he was called the Bertillion Classification,” (Trisha Torrey, 2011).   By the 1900, 26 countries encountered the Bertillion Classification.   In 1928, the Heath Organization of the league of Nation increased to tracking of the diseases.   In 1949, World Health Organization realizes the morality for tracking disease as well as the causes in a daily basis.   “ICD has served as a foundation for the practice of medical coding,” (Marka G. Hayes, 2001).   The AMA (American Medical Association) is the one that develops the CPT coding.   The CPT codes are updated annually by AMA.  
The six sections of the CPT coding is Evaluation and Management (E/M), Anesthesiology, Surgery, Radiology, Pathology and Laboratory, and Medicine.   Evaluation and Management (E/M) is the procedure by which physician-patient meetings are related into five digit CPT codes to facilitate...