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You'll Cheer For This Paravaginal Defect Repair Edit Deletion

Tip: Renumbered CPT codes means realigned CCI edits. With the new year comes a voluminous Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) version 15.0, but you don't have to panic applying new coding policies -- your ob-gyn practice needs only to follow the guidelines CPT 2009 adds. Deleted Codes Mean Deleted Edits Key: -Almost all of the deleted CCI edits represent deleted CPT codes and not a change in policy,- says Melanie Witt, RN, COBGC, MA, an ob-gyn coding expert based in Guadalupita, N.M.For instance, CPT 2009 deleted codes 0031T (Speculoscopy) and 0032T (Speculoscopy with directed sampling). You-ll find instructions to code either procedure using 58999 (Unlisted procedure, female genital system [nonobstetrical]). What it is: Speculoscopy represents a magnified chemiluminescent light examination of the cervix and specimen collection. Ob-gyns perform this examination to identify potentially abnormal lesions of the uterine ectocervix for detection of dysplasia (both low and high grade). Because CPT 2009 crossed [...]
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