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CCI 18.0:

Skip Catheterization Coding With Still More Procedures, According to CCI

Published on Mon Jan 16, 2012

Plus, you'll find 51597 bundles several procedures now as well. Every year at this time you're faced with new and revised codes you need to learn and just when you think you have the changes mastered, the Correct Coding Initiative ( CCI ) comes along and throws coding restrictions at you. The CCI released version 18.0 at the end of 2011, revealing 15,530 new active pairs and 6,197 code pair deletions, said Frank D. Cohen, MPA, MBB, senior analyst with The Frank Cohen Group, LLC, in his analysis of the changes. Many of the new code pair additions involve CPT codes that debuted on Jan. 1, with CCI now denying payment if you report certain procedures together. For instance, you'll find skin repair codes 12001-12021 bundled into new skin substitute grafting codes 15271-15278, but in most cases, a modifier can separate the edit. Good news: There are not too many [...]
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