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CCI 17.3 Update:

Look At Approach To Select A Code For Spinal Electrode Replacement

Published on Mon Sep 05, 2011

You select amongst percutaneously placed versus laminectomy placed electrodes.When reporting a spinal electrode replacement, you may find it easy to select the right code. You face a challenge when reporting the percutaneous and laminectomy approaches together. CCI 17.3 edits preclude the use of the two together. You carefully append the appropriate modifiers that may help you to overcome the edit.CCI version 17.3, which took effect Oct. 1, offers 1,380 new edit pairs and 835 terminated bundles, according to an analysis by Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB, principal and senior analyst with The Frank Cohen Group, LLC. As was the case with the previous CCI edition, the majority of edits impact the codes from the musculoskeletal code range (20000-29999), but bundles did occur to codes throughout the CPT® manual.You can never miss an opportunity to earn for spinal neurostimulator electrode replacements if you know how to select and report the right code. [...]
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