tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 13

CCI EDITS: CCI 15.2 Nixes Edit for Applied Neurostimulator

Check out new edits that affect eye exam codes, anesthesia, and vent management. The Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) may have startled coders when its April 1 round of edits bundled applied neurostimulator code 64550 into hundreds of other procedures, but new version 15.2 corrects that error, deleting these bundles retroactive to April 1, 2009. The new version of CCI, which took effect July 1, does bundle 64550 (Application of surface [transcutaneous] neurostimulator) into several anesthesia codes (such as 01920 and 01922), "but this is nothing considering that code was bundled into practically every other code in CPT prior...

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