DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 3 (March)

Ophthalmology codes get unbundling benefits in latest CCI edits

Brace yourself for nearly 2,200 new Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits that take effect April 1 and largely target codes billed by ophthalmologists and optometrists. Most of these are new edit pairs that permit unbundling surgical services with a modifier. For comparison, CCI 16.0 had almost 42,000 changes, which means version 16.1 has 95% fewer changes.

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