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Correct Coding Initiative:

CMS Takes Back E/M Bundles That Quash Legit Pay

Published on Tue Oct 15, 2013

Check your modifier 25 claims for erroneous denials. Since July 1, you’ve been facing hundreds of Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) E/M bundles with your general surgery procedures, compliments of CCI 19.2. Now you can forget about some of those edit pairs, because CCI 19.3 (effective Oct. 1) terminates the bundles. Recap: You read about some of these edits in General [...]
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