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Raise Your Reimbursement Expectations Using This NCCI 11.2 Chart

Published on Tue Aug 02, 2005

Find out which ob-gyn bundled codes carriers will never pay The following chart lists these as well as the bulk of NCCI 11.2 edits likely to affect your ob-gyn practice.

Note: Bundled codes that "carriers may pay" are those edits that have a modifier indicator of "1." You may apply a modifier to receive payment for each service. (For more info, see "Fire Up Your Modifier Know-How With This Tool" in the August 2005 Ob-Gyn Coding Alert.)
 
Bundled codes that "carriers will never pay" are those bundled codes with a modifier indicator of "0," which means you cannot bypass this bundle with a modifier, says Cindy Parman, CPC, CPC-H, RCC, president elect of the AAPC National Advisory Board and co-founder of Coding Strategies Inc., in Powder Springs, Ga.
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