DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2017 Issue 1 (January)

2017 CCI manual update: CCI warns against skirting code pairs; revises shoulder, imaging rules

Physicians who schedule procedures on different days to avoid Medicare code-bundling edits take note: CMS wants this to stop. In the 2017 update to the National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) policy manual, the agency serves notice that Medicare will be watching for this type of billing pattern:

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