CCI 17.3: Appendectomy bundled into many surgical procedures
Don’t mix your open appendectomy codes with your laparoscopic codes for gastric, urinary and other surgical procedures, and vice versa. That’s the over-arching message contained in National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI), Version 17.3, the final update for this year.
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