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CCI 18.2 Update:

Get A Handle On New Bundles Affecting Sleep Studies and Spirometry

Published on Mon Jul 23, 2012

Watch out for changes to tobacco counseling sessions, too.Your reporting for spirometry and sleep study interpretations may need adjusting, thanks to the most recent round of Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits. Version 18.2 brings the following changes to some spirometry and sleep study bundles.CPT® codes 95800 (Sleep study, unattended, simultaneous recording; heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiratory analysis [e.g., by airflow or peripheral arterial tone], and sleep time) -95811 (Polysomnography; sleep staging with 4 or more additional parameters of sleep, with initiation of continuous positive airway pressure therapy or bilevel ventilation, attended by a technologist) encompasses the entire range of sleep study codes (both attended and unattended sleep studies and polysomnography) that are performed by your pulmonologist. Your pulmonologist may perform these sleep studies by measuring various parameters through electrocardiography.As of July 1, CCI added these Category III codes to the other types of ECG monitoring considered as components of 95800-95811:0295T [...]
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