CCI 15.2 Update:
CCI 15.2 Update:Separately Reporting Exams Under Anesthesia? Read This First
Published on Thu May 28, 2009
Resistance is futile: Additional therapeutic injections are also now bundled with nearly all eye surgery codes. If your ophthalmologists perform exams under general anesthesia, you may need to break the habit of coding them separately. Version 15.2 of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI), effective as of July 1, bundles those exam codes into hundreds of eye surgery procedures -- but it does leave the door open for unbundling, if necessary. CCI 15.2 includes over 3,500 new edit pairs, according to Frank Cohen, senior analyst with MIT Solutions, Inc. These edits affect nearly all medical specialties, including ophthalmology. Include 92018-92019 in Most Eye Surgeries Codes 92018 (Ophthalmological examination and evaluation, under general anesthesia, with or without manipulation of globe for passive range of motion or other manipulation to facilitate diagnostic examination; complete) and 92019 (... limited) are now bundled into nearly all of the surgery codes listed in CPT's "Eye and Ocular [...]