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CCI 17.1:

28220-28222 Update: Reporting Tenolysis and Arthrotomy Separately? Read This First

Published on Mon Apr 18, 2011

The latest round of Correct Coding Initiative edits will also change the way you bill for synovectomy.If you're in the habit of reporting the freeing of a tendon from adhesions along with foot surgeries involving the flexors and extensors, you may need to break that habit now, or risk denials.The Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) released version 17.1 effective April 1, revealing 11,831 new edit pairs and 346 terminations, said Frank D. Cohen, MPA, MBB, senior analyst with MIT Solutions, Inc., in a March 17 statement.The edit pairs identify codes that coders should not report together for the same patient on the same date of service. Most of the edits in this version are "Column 1/Column 2" or "Comprehensive/Component" edits, which means that CCI considers the code in Column 2 of the edit pair to be an intrinsic component of the comprehensive procedure, which appears in Column 1.Effective April 1, CCI [...]
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