Anesthesia Coding Alert

TPI and tendon injections override 100+ other procedures. Now that 2012 is here, it's time to put those new procedure and diagnosis codes to use -- and see which ones are affected by the latest Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits. CCI 18.0 effective Jan. 1, 2012, changes how you should report anesthesia services for two new Category III codes and some long-time injection procedures. Report Anesthesia, Not Neurostim Electrode Array CCI 18.0 includes 544 edits listing an anesthesia code in Column 1 and 154 edits with anesthesia as the Column 2 component, according to an analysis by Frank Cohen, principal and senior analyst for The Frank Cohen Group, LLC, in Clearwater, Fl. CPT® 2012 introduces two Category III codes for implantation and/or removal of a trial or permanent percutaneous neurostimulator electrode array: 0282T -- Percutaneous or open implantation of neurostimulator electrode array(s), subcutaneous (peripheral subcutaneous field stimulation), including imaging guidance, when performed, [...]