Ob-Gyn Coding Alert

2 appendices just made CPT a whole lot easier to navigate. You've unwrapped your 2010 CPT book, but you're confronted with "#" and "O" symbols that baffle you. Don't bother trying to decipher these additions on your own -- your CPT Rosetta stone is here. Decipher Your CPT 2010 Book's New Symbols Effective for CPT 2010, you'll have two new symbols to learn. The first of these is the symbol "#" which signifies a resequenced code. "Because CPT is beginning to run out of room within certain code ranges for new codes, the decision was made to put the new code under the correct heading for the type of procedure, but to use the next available number," says Melanie Witt, RN, CPC, COBGC, MA, an ob-gyn coding expert based in Guadalupita, N.M. Example: For the new and revised urodynamics codes, CPT grouped existing code 51797 with the complex cystometrogram codes. Therefore [...]