The bottom lineCoding is a learnable system with a short rulebook. One tool run and two guides are enough to start capturing work you already do.
Do something in the next sixty seconds
Before any reading, see the system work. Each of these takes one click and costs nothing.
- Code one of your notes. Paste it de-identified; it comes back with the level, the three MDM columns behind it, and the paste ready rationale.
- Look up what any code is worth. Type in a CPT code like 99214, or plain words like hardware removal, and the wRVU appears as you type.
- Copy the level 4 and 5 phrases. Copy and paste documentation lines, organized by the rule they satisfy.
The twenty minute foundation
These two guides explain how coding turns into income and how the current rules set every visit level. Everything else on the site builds on them.
- Why Coding Matters: the direct line from your notes to your paycheck, how wRVUs and the conversion factor turn into income, and the 2021 rules that let a shorter note code higher.
- Medical Decision Making, Fully Decoded: the engine that sets the level of most visits, plus worked examples and the mistakes auditors look for.
Then follow your path
Primary care and internal medicine
- The 25 Codes That Pay Primary Care
- G2211, the add-on most eligible clinicians are not using.
- Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and AWV plus a same day problem visit.
- Counseling Services, the work you are giving away.
Surgical specialties
- Surgical Coding Overview, the global package and its exceptions. Read this one first.
- Modifier 25 and the modifier family (24, 25, 57, 58, 78, 79).
- Then your field: orthopaedics, fracture care, or sports medicine procedures.
Hospital and emergency department
- Hospitalist Coding after the 2023 observation merger.
- Emergency Medicine Coding, levels and critical care.
- Coding by Time and Prolonged Services.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants
- Advanced Practice Providers, the 85 percent rule and what it means for you.
- Incident-To Coding, the rules and the risks.
- Then the foundation above, which applies to your coding exactly as it does to a physician's.
Leading a group or fixing a practice
- Undercoding: the size of the problem and where it hides.
- Your Personal Coding Dashboard: measure each clinician's curve, then fix it.
- AI and Documentation Templates: make the fix automatic.
Where everything lives
The full library is organized into six collections you can read in order: Foundations, The Office Visit, Prevention, Compliance, and Practice Rules, Specialty Playbooks, Your wRVUs and Productivity, and Frequently Asked Coding Questions. Every guide opens with the bottom line, shows its reading time, and ends with the tool that puts it to work.