tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2000 Issue 12
Latest CCI Bundles E/M to Codes With No Global Period
Effective Oct. 30, 2000, evaluation and management (E/M) services performed at the same time as procedures that do not have a global period are considered bundled to those procedures unless they are significant and separately identifiable and have modifier -25 (significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician on the same day as the procedure or other service) attached. The new policy, which was proposed by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) in the Nov. 2, 1999, Federal Register, has been implemented in version 6.3 of the national Correct Coding Initiative (CCI). More than 57...
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