CCI Policy Manual:
83704: Look for NMR Lipoprotein Limits and Opportunities
Published on Tue Feb 07, 2012
Update your transfusion medicine guidelines, too.You always watch to see how Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) quarterly updates impact your lab, but if you overlook changes to the National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual, you could miss lots of coding restrictions and unbundling possibilities that impact your bottom line. Thanks to a Jan. 2012 update, your lab has lots of new rules to face this year. You read about some of those changes in "88342, 88360-88361: Report IHC Per Specimen for Medicare Beneficiaries" in Pathology/Lab Coding Alert Vol. 13 no.2. Now we've got the lowdown on a few more important changes that are sure to affect the way you code your services.Background: Each year, CMS updates the Policy Manual, which offers rationale for various CCI edits, and also describes acceptable scenarios for overriding some edit pairs.Leverage Lipoprotein InstructionsCMS says physicians would not normally order 83704 (Lipoprotein, blood; quantitation of lipoprotein particle [...]