DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2016 Issue 1 (January)

CCI Version 22.0: Look for Medicare coding restrictions on new spine, hip X-ray codes

If you are billing Medicare for one of the new X-ray codes for the entire spine (72081-72084), don’t expect to also get paid for codes for views of individual spinal regions (72020-72080). Thanks to a new batch of National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) code pairs, you’ll see denials for those regional X-rays.

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