Recent Updates, Changes & Additions

Old & New views of the Search page:

Overall Changes

• Cleaner UI
  • updated misspellings interface
  • updated ICD10CM prompts,
  • ADA approved text color and backgrounds combinations (contrast)
• New "by category" tab
• Moved special searches to new "special" tab
• Expandable individual sections rather than "expanded search" button
• Code sets moved to "Other": ICD9, ABC codes
• Features removed:
  • Specialty filter,
  • "Favorites" stars,
  • "Show context"
• Datasets added: NCDs, Medabbrev, BC Advantage, CPT Knowledge Base, FAC Articles, JustCoding, Revenue Cycle (AAPC newsletter)
• Features added: newsletter age filter, Medicare Policies only Active/Draft filter
• Moved "Search Options" section to the bottom and added new options:
  • consolidated Search Chpt/Section Notes
  • Show or hide Misspellings
  • Show or hide ICD10CM Prompts
  • Highlight Search Terms
  • Show Deleted Codes (or not)

Comparison Images

Page, and with results

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ICD-10-CM Prompts

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Misspelling

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CodeBookView

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Chapter/Section Hierarchy

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After - 8 Levels

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Search Result Sequence Update

We've added sorting by code when the search results provide the same relevance value for a set of codes. For example, in a search on "diabetes" the sequence changes to respect the code values rather than showing an apparently random listing of diabetes codes.

Search Result Sequences for "diabetes"

Old & New views of the Search results

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2025 Apr.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2025 Mar.

New Decision Health Articles for 2025-04-05.

Added Package information to NDC code as listed. Also "csv/excel" button to download to a file.

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New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2025 Feb.

New Decision Health Articles for 2025-03-05.

New Decision Health Articles for 2025-02-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2025 Jan.

New Decision Health Articles for 2025-01-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Dec.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Nov.

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-12-05.

Updated location selector for Medicare Policies

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New Decision Health Articles for 2024-11-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Oct.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Oct.

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-10-05.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2024 Q4.

Although GEMs are somewhat dated, we've UPdated the GEMs and RMs display area on the code information pages as part of our ongoing website refresh project.  In the near future the GEMs/RMs will be moved into the Cross-A-Code section of the code information page in order to consolidate the display for the millions of crosswalks (and counting) that Find-A-Code has developed.

The image below shows what the GEMs section looked like before and now after the update:

Also we've added a new section for a complete list of all of the codes associated via the GEMs and RMs along with the ability to easily download this list:

Happy coding!

- Find-A-Code staff

We're pleased to announce that DEA Controlled Substances information has been added to Find-A-Code. The drug information includes the CSCN (Controlled Substance Code Number), drug name, drug class, CSA Schedule (I - V), narcotic status (Y/N) and other names of the drug:

We have added "CSCN - DEA Controlled Substances" as a new option to the "codes | drugs & vaccines" menu at the top of the page:

When viewing an NDC code a new section will show DEA Controlled Substances information:

When viewing a drug by a GPI code the DEA Controlled Substances information will show on the NDC tab:

Happy coding!

— Find-A-Code staff

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Sep.

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-09-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Aug.

Updates to selecting the location for Medicare Policy-based crosswalks.

Updates to viewing codes. Added a new "list view" in addition to updated "category view" with pop-open sections.

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List of the codes entered into the "search" box in the screen capture shown above:

Updated display for anesthesia related information for CPT codes.

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Updated display for Modifiers associated with CPT and HCPCS codes.

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New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Jul.

Added the "Additional Description" value for codes to the Search page code details area (opened when the "+" is selected) to show additional code informaiton like test information as shown here:

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-08-05.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2024 Q3.

Added buttons for sample codes, import codes from Codebasket, import from current fee schedule, import from CSV file.

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Added a "csv/excel" button at the top of the list of the codes for easy download functionality.

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-07-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Jun.

Visual and tool updates to the NCCI Edits section of the Code details pages.

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Added more description and information to NCCI Edit values shown on page. Also added a NCCI Edit Checker tool within the Code Details page section for NCCI Edits. Entering in codes and selecting the validate button will open an NCCI Edits Validator page and automatically run the valiation for the entered codes.

Visual updates to the code hierarchy section of the Code details pages.

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Updated font sizes, moved links to buttons following chapter or section name for better clarity.

Today's update brings the "Locations" settings out of the My Accounts page and into the header. This should speed up your workflow, especially if you manage many locations!

Happy coding!

— Find-A-Code staff

New AHA Coding Clinic HCPCS for 2024 Q2.

Visual updates to the Medicare Contractors page.

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Added Contractor types and #s grouped by contracting company.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 May.

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-06-05.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2024 Q2.

We've improved our support for HCC data to include accounting for Age and/or Sex restrictions. For example, ICD-10-CM code D66 now risk adjusts differently for Male vs Female. Here's the female version:

and now compare that to the male version:

As you can see there is quite the difference!

These are also shown in the "Additional Code Information" section on the code page:

This should create more accurate and nuanced scoring. Enjoy!

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-05-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Apr.

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-04-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Mar.

New Decision Health Articles for 2024-03-05.

New AHA Coding Clinic HCPCS for 2024 Q1.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2024 Q1.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Feb.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2024 Jan.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Dec.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Nov.

New AHA Coding Clinic HCPCS for 2023 Q4.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Nov.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Oct.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-10-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Aug.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Sep.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-09-05.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2023 Q4.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Aug.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-08-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Jul.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-07-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Jun.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-06-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 May.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 May.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-05-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Apr.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Mar.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Mar.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-04-05.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-03-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Feb.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2023 Jan.

New Decision Health Articles for 2023-01-06.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Oct.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Dec.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Nov.

New Decision Health Articles for 2022-12-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Nov.

New Decision Health Articles for 2022-11-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Oct.

New Decision Health Articles for 2022-10-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Sep.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Sep.

The WK Drug Dictionary addon lists drugs related to a given ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, or HCPCS code.
The display now includes information based on the acceptance level of the indicated drug, such as "FDA Approved", "Generally Accepted", "Limited Evidence", and "Investigational".

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Jul.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Jun.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 May.

New Decision Health Articles for 2022-09-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Aug.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Jul.

New Decision Health Articles for 2022-07-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Jun.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 May.

New Decision Health Articles for 2022-05-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 April.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Mar.

New Decision Health Articles for 2022-03-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2022 Feb.

Expansion of Code-level Guidelines

All guidelines applicable to a code now appear when viewing that individual code. For example, if you look at code 11042 in a printed book, there is a single guideline that states “(For debridement of skin [ie, epidermis and/or dermis only], see 97597, 97598)”. However, if you look after code 11047, there is a guideline that states “(Do not report 11042-11047 in conjunction with 97597-97602 for the same wound)”. FindACode.com now lists both guidelines below code 11042, so you don’t have to go looking for this important information.

New Decision Health Articles for 2022-01-05.

SNOMED CT is an organized set of medical concepts. Concepts are coded with a concept ID number and are linked to language specific terms, synonyms and definitions that are used in clinical documentation, claims billing and reporting. Concepts are linked together in logical connections to create aggregate concepts or conditions. Concepts have a network-type hierarchy where each concept can have multiple parents and multiple children.

These concepts, hierarchies, terms, and definitions can now be searched in the IntelliSearch.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Dec.

New AHA Coding Clinic HCPCS for 2021 Q4.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2021 Q3.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Nov.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Nov.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Dec.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Dec.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Oct.

New Decision Health Articles for 2021-10-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Sep.

New AHA Coding Clinic HCPCS for 2021 Q3.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2021 Q3.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Aug.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Jun.

New Decision Health Articles for 2021-07-05.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2021 Q2.

New Decision Health Articles for 2021-06-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 May.

Drugs, pharmaceuticals, GPIs, NDCs, billing codes and more from the Wolters Kluwer drug database have been incorporated into the IntelliSearch™ beta

To search the WK Drug Database from IntelliSearch simply select NDC or GPI from the IntelliSearch™ Data Sets.

Click Here to visit IntelliSearch™ beta

New AHA Coding Clinic HCPCS for 2021 Q2.

New Decision Health Articles for 2021-05-05.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 April.

List-A-Code can now be used to generate lists of ICD-10-PCS Codes.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Feb.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Mar.

New Decision Health Articles for 2021-03-05.

New AHA Coding Clinic HCPCS for 2021 Q1.

New AHA Coding Clinic ICD10 for 2021 Q1.

Find-A-Code has incorporated some long-awaited changes to the display of CPT®/HCPCS information. The goal was to both expand the data we have available as well as to clarify which data comes from which source. These changes include: 

We expanded the "Additional Code Information" section to include additional indicators from the cms.gov official HCPCS data file:

        


As part of this we also introduced 5 new "HCPCS Coverage" icons. These are white letters on a green background:

       

We also took the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule attributes and moved them to their own sub-section inside "Additional Code Information" section:

       


The "Status Code" attribute has its own new icon as well, a white letter on a blue background:

       

Note: CPT® has identical icons for CPT MPFS.
Both of these new icons will now display up at the top of the page with the code description:

       

Now that we will have more accurate icons, we are retiring the following older "Medicare" icons that were hard to distinguish between and confusing to many individuals:

        

Important: These icons will be removed starting March 8th, 2021.

Finally, pertinent information has also been incorprated into a HCPCS Code Dashboard at the bottom of the screen: 
       

We hope that you find these changes to be helpful and more accurate! Enjoy!

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2021 Jan.

New Decision Health Articles for 2021-02-05.

The Find-A-Code Newsletter is now available right from the Code Information page.

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The CPT® Assistant Newsletter has been releasing Special Editions for COVID-19.

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New AHA Coding Clinic HCPCS for 2020 Q4.

New CPT Assistant Newsletter for 2020 Nov.

Added the ability to highlight and add notes to books in the Digital Library:

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Added a new tool, the Skilled Nursing Facility Patient-driven Payment Model (SNF PDPM) Calculator:

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Added specialty-specific Single Organ Systems Exams to the E/M Component Calculator:

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Added HCPCS Common Language Descriptions:

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Added customizeable multipliers for UCR Fees:

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Added CPT® to ICD-10-PCS crosswalk tool to Map-A-Code (also highlighted are the CPT® to SNOMED crosswalk tools - see update on 2020-05-11):

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Added ICD-10-PCS to CPT® crosswalks tool to Map-A-Code:

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Added CPT® to ICD-10-PCS crosswalks tool to Map-A-Code:

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Updated Code Sets page "other" code selection to say "more code sets":

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Also included are more existing and several new code sets (SNOMED CT, LOINC, CVX, etc.):

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Added a Clinical Classification codes home page link (yellow):

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The Clinical Classification codes home page includes button links to the CCS codes by code set:

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Added AMA's SNOMED CT concept crosswalks to CPT® codes on the SNOMED CD information pages:

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Added CPT® to SNOMED CT concept crosswalks to the CPT code information pages in the Cross-A-Code section:

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Added Map-A-Code tool to crosswalk SNOMED CT concepts to CPT® codes:

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Added Map-A-Code tool to crosswalk CPT® to SNOMED CT concepts:

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Added AMA's CPT® Vignettes to code information pages. The Vignettes cover over 4500 of the most common CPT codes and are available as an Add-on to each user's subscription.

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Added historic view option for Cross-A-Code™ crosswalk tool:

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Added SNOMED CT code set to the codes/diagnosis menu:

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Added SNOMED CD code set to the codes/procedures menu:

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Created SNOMED CT search and top level list page:

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Created SNOMED CT concept information page:

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Added 2021 E/M Code Calculator with MDM Based calculations for Office, New Patient & Office, Established Patient.

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Updated NDC Labelers list page:

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Updated NDC Labelers information page:

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Updated NDC drug/product list page:

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Updated NDC code information page:

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Also added "Labeler" level to NDC hierarchy:

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Added CVX Immunization and Vaccination codes:

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Search CVX codes or browse by group or manufacturer:

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Added View information about the CVX code::

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Added search for LOINC codes:

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Added search for ICD-11 codes:

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Added CPT E/M 2021 changes page:

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The tutorials are now organized to reflect the Find-A-Code subscription packages:

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A NEW Podcasts page has been added. It can be accessed via the heading menu at:

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Added 6 new books to the Library from ZHealth Publishing - the Dr. Z books:

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On the Webinars page, cleaned up the look, added some spacing, updated the display of the "upcoming" webinars:

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On the Library page, added a short name to show below the book icons and the publisher's name to the hover text:

Added innoviHealth's Complete & Easy HIPAA Compliance book to the Library:

Launched the new NotePad tool, a new icon shows in the header
When the icon is selected, the "notepad" window will open: Notes may be added ("new" button) or removed ("delete" button) and the text of the note may be copied to the computer's clipboard by selecting the "copy" button.

On the Home page the "news/articles" items have been split into two columns: "news" and "articles".  "news" items will be limited to new products, updates, and tips/tricks to using FAC features.  The "articles" column will list the 5 most recent articles.  Note, not all articles are featured in the weekly Spotlight newsletter so some articles listed here will not have been emailed in the Spotlight newsletter and it's possible that the most recently emailed Spotlight article is no longer showing in the list due to the addition of newer articles.

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Changed in header menu and footer menu: "Newsletters" - "Find-A-Code Spotlight" to "Find-A-Code Articles".  Not all of the articles Find-A-Code publishes are included in the weekly "Spotlight" newsletters.  So the "Articles" label is more descriptive than the "Spotlight" name.

Created this page to help our partners easily review the visual and functional changes to the website.  This page can be found by going to the "About Us" page (link in the footer) and selecting the "Updates & Changes by Date" link.

Added a "Add this Page" option to the Bookmarks menu that will add the current page to the list of bookmarks.