okay so this next slide is where we just want to let you know that the bubble
highlight annotate technique otherwise known as that system has been updated
for 2018 this was more painful than probably giving birth as many of you
probably know we used to use a document camera and show our CPT manuals on video
the AMA does not like us does not like anybody to do that so that they feel as
a violation of their copyright so we had to try and come up with a creative way
to share how we annotate our manuals so that our students our club members can
make their manuals similar to ours so we had a bunch of subject matter experts go
in and create almost like a just a document that walks you through go to
this page write this know highlight this so it's more in a typewritten format so
we think that that's going to be a pretty good method going forward so far
the feedback we're getting is is pretty good because it's it's easier to follow
because they can print it out and have it next to your CPT manual and just
follow the notes so thanks a may it was very time-consuming or if we're to
create and create and that's what were the delay it was a huge huge team effort
but the good news is now that we've got the format we should be able to the end
of this year be able to go in and quickly make tweaks change a page number
here sometimes if we say upper right corner
well that might change the next year so that is that is why it took so long but
the bottom line is bubble highlight annotate technique is very simple you it
just started off with CPT you circling the parent code with the indented codes
and any parenthetical notes and that became your bubble you just did that in
pencil and then I taught my students to highlight everything after the semicolon
so that it was very clear when there an indented code that that highlighted
portion replaced the highlighted portion in the parent code above so that was
bubbling and highlighting that's all it was
and then as I taught the course we would discuss each page of CPT and we would
compare one grouping one bubble to another and we would talk about what's
the difference and then we'd highlight or you know
underline I call it emphasize what the difference was between the bubbles so on
the certification exams or in real life coding you could quickly see you know
what the differences were so that's really the technique you honestly really
don't need these little
walkthroughs if you will if you go and just do it yourself and go through and
ask yourself what's the difference between this and that in any group so if
you're in the excision category and integumentary or musculoskeletal just
look at the difference between the bubble something's going to stand out as
being different emphasize that and then of course we just started jotting a
little note here there to help carry the guidelines forward that might have been
two or three pages previously so there isn't like a lot of like you know some
people said oh they're cheater notes now there's there's no notes really from
another source it's pretty much all right there in CPT we just ship it
around so it's very visual for when you're doing your your coding work or
your certification exam so and the bat system instruction is included in all of
our courses in our blitzes and does it include an over applets as I think most
of them yeah yeah and our club members so we do not sell it separately it's
it's part of our program so if you want to learn more about it if you go to CCO
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