tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 19

CORRECT CODING INITIATIVE: Resubmit Previously-Bundled Claims

CCI 15.3 retroactively deletes hundreds of edit pairs,but institutes over 18,000 new bundles. If you thought the last version of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) left no stone unturned in bundling moderate sedation, think again. CCI's version 15.3, which takes effect Oct. 1, continues the trend, bundling 99148-99150 into most of the other CPT codes, and no modifier can separate the bundles.Modifier changes: CCI 15.3 also ensures that you won't collect when you report thousands of bundles that previously had a "1" modifier (which meant that you could append a modifier to the...

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