tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2022 Issue Q1
You Be the Coder: Learn MUE Limits and Options
Question: Could you please clarify what “MUE” is and how it might impact my coding? Georgia Subscriber Answer: “MUE” is an acronym for medically unlikely edits, which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established as a unit-of-service edit for Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Level II/Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes. An MUE is assigned to a specific code to represent the maximum number of units of the code that you should report — either on a specific claim or on a specific date. CMS developed the edits to reduce the paid claims error...
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