tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2002 Issue 11

CCI 101: Understanding the Edits

The national Correct Coding Initiative (CCI), first issued in January 1996 and updated each quarter since then, has become an essential source of coding information."If you perform more than one procedure during the same session, you have to check if the procedures are bundled. For that you need the most recent edition of the CCI," says Susan Callaway, CPC, CCS-P, an independent coding and reimbursement specialist and educator in North Augusta, S.C. "Relying on an outdated edition of CCI is like relying on last year's CPT. Maybe worse. You don't know when CCI will add hundreds...

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