tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 5

CCI 19.1: Don't Double Dip for Included Vessel, Abdominal Work

Watch modifier indicator for override options. When certain procedures are a standard part of more comprehensive services that your general surgeon performs, you can be certain Medicare’s Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) will establish edit pairs that you need to know. Such is the case with CCI 19.1, effective April 1, 2013. Although the latest Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) update is “probably the smallest impact I have seen since the beginning of the program,” according Frank D. Cohen, MPA, MBB,senior analyst with The Frank Cohen Group, LLC, that doesn’t mean your general surgery practice...

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