tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 1

Correct Coding Initiative: CCI 15.0 Takes Aim at Several New CPT Codes

New IV infusion code 96365 sees scores of bundles. With over half a million changes to the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI), you've got your work cut out for you this post-holiday season. Version 15.0 of CCI, which was effective on Jan. 1, institutes over 522,000 changes to its code pairs, with 18 percent of the changes taking place among the codes in CPT's anesthesia section. E/M codes: Medicare payers will now bundle most of the E/M codes (99201-99215) into the new brachytherapy codes (77785-77787), and no modifier can separate these bundles. "Most of the other brachytherapy codes...

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