tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 1

CCI 14.0: Stop Reporting 36000 With Injections, Surgeries

Plus, pulmonologists should be ready for scores of edits to affect themThe latest version of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) spares almost no specialty, with more than 8,000 new edits that will affect your claims in 2008.Effective Jan. 1, CCI bundles needle or intracatheter introduction code 36000 into 78 other codes, including injection codes such as 20555, fracture care codes like 27726-27267, and catheterization codes 32550-325551. You can use a modifier to separate most of these edits.Biggest bundle: New neonatal initial hospital care code 99477 is bundled into a whopping 418 codes, according to Frank Cohen...

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