DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 9 (September)

CMS targets wound care, neuromuscular procedures in massive Q4 CCI edits

Your coders will have to get familiar with nearly 250,000 new code pairs – a hundred times more than were released in the third quarter – in CMS’ latest National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits effective Oct. 1. The majority of added edit pairs have been related to general surgery and trigger point injections. Plus, all edit pairs, except for Category III pairs, were coupled with wound repair codes.

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