Coding Update Course

The NASS Coding Update Course held on November 13 will be led by expert NASS coding faculty. This highly-interactive one-day workshop will address the latest spine coding changes for 2025. Attendees will leave the course with proper documentation and coding knowledge in order to receive appropriate reimbursement along with valuable information for navigating the authorization process. Gain practical tips to ensure payment on initial submission, thereby decreasing time spent on appeals and denials, correct utilization of both 22000 and 63000 codes, operative report coding and documentation, correct use of modifiers, and changes involving billing for telemedicine. An essential course for all spine coding professionals.

Coding Update is held before the NASS Annual Meeting at the Denver Convention Center. To register for the Coding Workshop visit https://www.spine.org/codingupdate.

2025 Common Coding Scenarios Reference Book

The 2025 Edition offers new features including revamped and updated scenarios for 2025, details and updates Local Coverage Determination (LCD) on most commonly used ICD-10 codes, details and updates on National Coverage Determination (NCD) on most commonly used ICD-10 codes, Coverage Guidance for Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation for OVCF, Cervical Fusions, and Lumbar Fusion, 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule: Conversion Factor, Potentially Mis-valued Services, Medicare Telehealth Services, and Strategies for Improving Global Surgery Payment Accuracy.

Standard Features Include: Information on reporting MIPS Measures, CPT® codes 22000 series, 63000 series and Modifiers, CPT® codes for Injections, Pain Management, Radiology and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC) list of covered procedures.

The book is available in both print and digital formats. Order at www.spine.org/codingbook.