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Exercise Tissue Transfer Coding Skills With These 2010 Edit Tips

Published on Fri Jan 08, 2010

Don't forget 59 to unbundle skin repair, excision codes. You'd better put learning CPT 2010's new skin repair code bundles at the top of your list of New Year's resolutions to keep denials, lost reimbursements, and fraud charges at bay. Pick One Transfer Code Per Defect CPT 2010 new codes 14301-14302 (Skin tissue rearrangement) received the brunt of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) version 16.0's edits. Codes 14040-14041 (Tissue transfer closure) and 14060-14061 (Adjacent tissue transfer) are components of 14301 (Adjacent tissue transfer or rearrangement, any area; defect 30.1 sq cm to 60.0 sq cm) as of January 1. "These are similar services and should not be coded together," says Pamela J. Biffle, CPC, CPC-I, CCS-P, CHCC, CHCO, owner, PB Healthcare Consulting and Education, Inc. in Watauga, Texas. You will be able to separate the edits with a modifier (such as 59, Distinct procedural service) in some situations, such as [...]
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