CPT Professional 2019: CPT / Current Procedural Terminology (2018) (PDF) by American Medical Association

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Ebook Info

  • Published: 2018
  • Number of pages: 1094
  • Format: PDF
  • File Size: 50.57 MB
  • Authors: American Medical Association

Description

Buyer Beware. Some book purchasers have complained they bought a CPT product that arrived in poor condition. The AMA prides itself on high-quality printing, binding and shipping; the AMA and its authorized sellers will ship CPT books in 2-3 days, orders that won’t ship for 2 weeks might be coming from oversees, and could be counterfeit. Use caution when placing orders.

Correct reporting and billing of medical procedures and services begins with CPT® 2019 Professional Edition. The AMA publishes the only CPT® codebook with the official CPT® coding guidelines developed by the CPT® Editorial Panel. The updates that appear in this revision have been prepared by the CPT® Editorial Panel with the assistance of physicians representing all specialties of medicine, and with important contributions from many third-party payers and government organizations.

User’s Reviews

The American Medical Association has promoted scientific advancement, improved public health and protected the patient-physician relationship since its establishment in 1847. The AMA is the premier national organization dedicated to empowering the nation s physicians to provide safer, higher quality and more efficient care to patients and communities. For more than 50 years, the AMA, in drawing upon its deep expertise and resources, has authored and published books, data files and online resources that answer the needs of today s busy physicians and their staff. The AMA product line includes titles on CPT®, HCPCS and ICD-10 coding, as well as reimbursement, practice management, disability evaluation, impairment, HIPAA and electronic health records. –This text refers to the spiral_bound edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ The AMA uses metal wires on this which they do not do on their ICD Manual. As a result within less than ten days the holes at the bottom and top were tearing with their thin paper. This is a lot of money for a manual that begins falling apart when you use it. As bond it is a defective product. I had to search and pay for a plastic binding coil and will now have to pay for someone to insert it. There is no sense in this when the AMA could use the same coil it does on its other manuals.

⭐ This book is horribly manufactured.When it arrived I had to spend a couple hours reinforcing a bunch of pages that were hole-punched wrong. The hole-punching in general is awful, very rough. The book comes with sticky tabs on the first page but when I attempt to pull them off the paper underneath rips off with them. Not to mention, when I opened the shrink-wrapped me, my desk, and my floor were covered in itty bitty paper confetti that I can’t seem to get rid of.I am currently attending a class with about fifteen other students who purchased their book from Amazon and they also have the same complaints as mine.There is something fundamentally wrong with the way these are all made. It is awful because these books are expensive.

⭐ Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Wasn’t happy with the quality of the tab stickers. Not happy with the overall appearance of what should have been a brand new book. When it arrived, the plastic film around it was broken and halfway removed. I suspect that this book was pieced together from other mangled books that still had some good pages- which could be why there are varying shades of paper edges that mark different sections off.It will do, I suppose…. but for the price I paid, I expected BRAND NEW! This is not.

⭐ Things wrong with my copy of this book:1) Printer issues, looks like ink faded in some parts and like 3D text in others.2) Spiral binding. It’s too thin for this many pages.3) Hole punching on pages is rough.4) The included tabs rip the page if you need to move it, no matter how careful you are. Some of mine ripped paper off the page they’re originally stuck to as well.5) As another review described, “paper confetti.”For how expensive these books are, I’m very disappointed. I hope 2020’s edition is much better quality.

⭐ The contents are fine, but the book itself is very poorly made. For some reason they used a thin wire binding and this makes it really hard to use this book. It’s a 3 inch thick textbook. Also, I paid for a new textbook, but received a damaged book. The back flap is ripped and so are sevreal page corners. You’re probably better off with an ebook version of this.

⭐ I can’t believe this is labeled brand new when all the tabs are glued down or watered down or something. They are useless and make use of this book incredibly hard! This is ridiculous. I can’t just randomly buy these labels.

⭐ Bought this book as a home reference for taking the CPC exam.It’s extensively formatted and relatively organized well, but it could use a little improving.Many of the sections and codes I’ve found need a little more expansion or clarification, some of which can be a bit ambiguous, and there may be multiple codes for the exact same diagnosis, procedure, etc. which the book does not reference to.This book has only a very small amount of modifiers, and as I’ve discovered the hard way, if you’re planning to use this reference book for the exam, you will also need an additional version(s) in order to correctly answer test questions and for use in practical applications.(See HCPCS Level II as you most likely need to purchase that book in conjunction with this one)It’s spiral bound and easy to thumb through, but many of the entries cited are out of order. Ex: if you’re looking for a code (this is an example only) 123.45 and can’t find it in it’s sequential order, then it may be found on the next pages within other codes, or listed separately.Note: because CPT codes are updated a minimum of once annually, it’s very important to buy the current year’s issue.This book is a must-have if you’re planning to take the exam.

⭐ Content is fine but tabs are non usable. First of all they are white not clear so they cover up text on the tabbed paged. Second the adhesive is poor quality or incorrect adhesive all together and does not release from the page. Wire spiral is too small for number of pages so pages and cover keep ripping out of the holes. This book is unlikely to last the year. Really disappointed in binding quality.

⭐ Each edition of this book gets better every year. It makes it simpler to locate codes and includes the updates to the guidelines. Quick tip: Get the Avery Label Tabs and label each section, including any note pages per personal notes that appear at the end of the chapters. This will help you to locate codes at a glance. The book comes with limited tabs which give you the abbreviation of the sections for tabbing, but you are much better off tabbing the sections by number series.

⭐ The book does what it’s suppose to do, which is to give you the codes. The book’s functionality as an actual book leaves a lot to be desired. First off, you make a mess as soon as it arrives, there is white pieces of paper flinging all over this thing, from where it was punched among wherever else. Then, it leaves a mess everywhere you take it. You turn a page, you leave a mess. The sticky marks don’t stick worth nothing, might as well not even used them. I bought this because like this book I was in a messy bind and needed something, and it was the cheapest at the time. I saw the reviews and thought to buy it anyway because like I said I needed it. Poor binding, the cheaply made manuals I had in elementary school with similar binding where better made than this book. Look at it wrong, and the wires get offended and bend all over the place. I appreciated having it for my class but now that it’s over, it wasn’t worth the money to get it, cheapest alternative or not.

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