tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 36

CCI EDITS: Your Life Could Get Easier With These Deleted Edits

Deleted edits: they're not all bad news.CCI Version 12.3 doesn't just drop new edits on your head. It also offers relief by taking away some edits that may have been making your life difficult: · Thoracotomy code 32100 is no longer mutually exclusive with biopsy code 32402. Also, 32220 (decortication, pulmonary [separate procedure]; total) is no longer a component of 32100.· CCI version 9.3 made transhepatic catheter-introduction code 47510 mutually exclusive with injection code 47500, but CCI 12.3 deletes this edit. · You can now bill biliary-drainage catheter placement code 75982 with biliary drainage...

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