Total Request Coding

As APMA did with our Back to Basics and Surgical Coding webinar series, APMA’s Coding Committee is now asking you to select the topics most important to you related to coding for the foot and ankle. Be sure to send your ideas to coding.hpp@apma.org. Topics already selected are “Routine Foot Care and Debridement,” “Paring, Debridement, Excision, Destruction Codes: What’s the Difference?”, and “Compliant Coding and Documentation for Ulcer Debridement.”

MACRA Made Easy

To ensure your successful MIPS participation, APMA created the MACRA Made Easy Webinar Series. Presentations include MIPS generally, as well as deep dives into each of the 2018 performance categories and related topics like the APMA Registry and group versus individual reporting.

Back to Basics

APMA’s Coding Committee has developed resources for podiatrists and their staff to help understand the basics of coding. Such topics include modifiers, wound care, E/M coding, CCI edits, and more.

Surgical Coding

APMA’s Coding Committee has developed resources for podiatrists and their staff to help understand essential surgical coding for the foot and ankle. For this series, we have focused on the coding of various surgical procedures by anatomic area that are of primary interest to foot and ankle surgeons.