tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 8

CCI 20.2: Resist Separate Vessel Repair With Many Surgeries

Forsake separate assessment and management, too. Sometimes you’ll see a lull in new Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edit pairs by the third quarter — but not this year. The July 1, 2014 CCI version 20.2 update brings 20,729 new edit pairs. “With only 212 terminations, we see a net gain this quarter of 20,517 new edit pairs for a total of 1,334,994 active edit pairs (or reasons not to pay you for what you do) in the database,” says Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB, principal and senior analyst for The Frank Cohen...

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