CCI 18.3:
Include I&D, Skin Suture Procedures With Your Urological Surgery Codes, Thanks to CCI 18.3
Published on Wed Oct 10, 2012
Review the record number of changes that hit CPT® codes on Oct. 1. Every quarter coders wait with bated breath to see the effect the latest round of Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) will have on their coding. CCI 18.3 is a doozy. "In the 15 years or so that I have been analyzing the NCCI database, this release will go down in history as the Ripley's Believe it or Not quarterly change," warns Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB, principal and senior analyst for The Frank Cohen Group in Clearwater, Fla. "Effective October 1, 2012, there will be 233, 242 new edit pairs added to the database. So, in addition to the overwhelming volume of reasons that payers use to deny payment to a practice, you can add 1 million more, which is just about the size of the new NCCI database. Over 97 percent of these were surgical procedures (codes 10000 [...]