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CCI:

New Edit Bundles Immunizations With E/M Services, Causing Rash of Denials

Published on Fri Feb 01, 2013

CCI also impacts how you’ll report newborn services with critical care.

With the New Year comes new CPT codes -- and unfortunately, new Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits. CCI 19.0, which took effect on January 1, 2013, adds 37,587 new bundles and deletes 16,716. Although these edits don’t normally cause massive issues for pediatricians, this round is different—you’ll [...]
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