tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 23

CCI: Version 14.2 Halts Payment of 90769 With Several E/M Codes

Half of the new edit pairs affect anesthesiologistsThe Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) strikes again, with more than 300,000 changes and 4,305 new bundles affecting Part B providers effective July 1.This time around, CCI aims most of its fire at the anesthesia codes, directing nearly half of Version 14.2's new edits to the codes in the 00100-01999 range.For example: CCI now bundles 36555-36556 (Insertion of central venous access device) into 93503 (Swan-Ganz insertion), but you can append a modifier to the pair to break the edit.-Anesthesiologists reporting these two procedures together will need to...

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