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Typo in CPT
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Good for you, Luna. I find errors, too, occasionally.
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Oh yeah, there are errors in everything in print. That is a funny one. You can contact the publisher and sometimes they will give you something for finding the error.
Possibly another glitch is bubble 32440-32445. (AMA CPT 2013 Professional Edition)
You'll notice that 32440 starts out indented, and in even alignment with the remaining two bubble codes. The only reason I know this is its own bubble, and that 32440 should not be indented is that the code preceding it, 32405, lives in Excision/Resection and 32440 lives in Removal. Had this improper indentation happened within the same home (or "church") I might not have caught it and thus bubbled it incorrectly.
Another tip, is that it is capitalized, making it the beginning of a description. Indented codes are not capitalized because they are completing the description of the parent code. Another tip, is that it does contain a semi-colon, and that means that there should be at least one indented code following it. (In the majority of cases, but not always. eg. 32400 contains semi-colon but has no indented code following it. It is likely that 32402, now deleted, followed it as an indented code.)
One thing for sure, coding gets you paying attention to detail.
You'll notice that 32440 starts out indented, and in even alignment with the remaining two bubble codes. The only reason I know this is its own bubble, and that 32440 should not be indented is that the code preceding it, 32405, lives in Excision/Resection and 32440 lives in Removal. Had this improper indentation happened within the same home (or "church") I might not have caught it and thus bubbled it incorrectly.
Another tip, is that it is capitalized, making it the beginning of a description. Indented codes are not capitalized because they are completing the description of the parent code. Another tip, is that it does contain a semi-colon, and that means that there should be at least one indented code following it. (In the majority of cases, but not always. eg. 32400 contains semi-colon but has no indented code following it. It is likely that 32402, now deleted, followed it as an indented code.)
One thing for sure, coding gets you paying attention to detail.