2026 Coders’ Desk Reference for Procedures

The Coders’ Desk Reference for Procedures is a comprehensive resource for all 2026 CPT codes. This all-inclusive tool provides lay descriptions for over 8,500 CPT codes, improving your clinical understanding and identifying the minute differences and components of similar CPT codes.The Coders’ Desk Reference for Procedures was developed to work hand-in-hand with your Optum Current Procedural Coding Expert code book to answer your toughest CPT coding questions.Key Features and Benefits:Evaluation and Management (E/M) Service Guidelines. Review components of care needed when determining E/M levels of service with the AMA CPT guidelines.Comprehensive CPT code listing with CPT procedure lay descriptions. Eliminate the need for multiple resources with a one-stop resource of more than 8,500 CPT codes and 6,000 lay descriptions for surgery, laboratory/pathology, radiology, medicine, and evaluation and management codes.Modifier definitions and usage rules. Reduce research time and improve coding accuracy with a complete modifier list, accompanied by narrative explanations to ensure proper use of modifiers.Procedure eponym crosswalk. Locate eponym definitions and code links in an alphabetically organized section.Reimbursement and procedure glossary of terms. Understand terminology often used in medical record documentation and terms used in communications with payers.Abbreviations, acronyms, symbols. A comprehensive glossary of unique “shorthand” terms in medical language to assist in more efficient CPT coding. Prefixes and suffixes glossary. Provides definitions medical language suffixes and prefixes.Anatomical illustrations. Recognize the body sites described in operative reports with helpful illustrations. Place of service codes. Review the list of CMS-1500 place service codes linked to the appropriate place of service.CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Read more