BHAT Videos Were Replaced by Docs! https://www.cco.us/bhat/ CPT Manual Bubble and Highlighting Technique Explained The second part of the question was about our bubbling and highlighting technique. That is a proprietary teaching method in term. It’s been trademarked of mine and CCOs and its licensees. It’s a very integral part of our method of teaching especially for the CPT manual. Alicia said she uses it more for the ICD-10 now, so it will be interesting to see how it morphs into that new manual. And it really helps you understand how to really compare the neighboring codes to each other. Let me show you an example here. This is just a page from my CPT manual, the very beginning of the surgery section. This one is a little less scary when you first look at it. But all I do, all I teach is that you will bubble what I call the parent code, so you see fine needle aspiration here, 10021. It’s capitalized, and then below it, indented, in lower case “with imaging guidance.” Then, there are some parenthetical notes below it and it moves on to the next section. So this is a group, so I just circle, put a bubble around it. Then, what I do is I highlight everything and I pick one color. I always use pale yellow, every year I’ve been doing it since 1999. Then I save other colors for other things that I want to bring to my attention. But if I see pale yellow, I know that this is the portion of the code that comes after the semicolon, because when you’re flipping really quick on a stressful board exam or even in real world coding, sometimes it’s hard to see that little semicolon. What it means now is 10022 with imaging guidance, this yellow part replaces the yellow part above. So, if I was to type this out fully, 10022, it would be “fine needle aspiration with imaging guidance.” And now this bubble gives you a nice little place to write a keynote, something, like, what is this bubble about? It’s about FNA. Then, I’ll underline the key words that make the two codes, or however many notes, within the bubble, stand out. It’s a timesaver especially on the board exam. Read more here: https://www.cco.us/cpt-manual-bubble-and-highlighting-technique-explained-video/ Get more medical coding training, medical coding tips, medical coding certification and free medical coding webinars at https://www.cco.us/

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