tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 26

CCI 13.2: CCI Grants Relief From Spinal Surgery Edits

Also, check out this modifier change for reporting 38745 with 19303.CPT 2006 gave you some new codes for kyphoplasty and percutaneous vertebroplasty, and then Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits made those codes harder to bill. But starting in July, you can bill more spinal injection codes on the same date as those codes. CCI version 13.2 deletes a dozen edits bundling spinal injection codes 62310, 62318-62319, 64470 or 64475 with kyphoplasty and/or vertebroplasty codes. You can also bill spinal injection codes with aspiration/decompression code 62287 without a modifier. Timely intervention: The American Society for Interventional Pain Management...

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