tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 12

CPT: NCCI Hits New Codes With Tons of Edits

The American Medical Association introduced many new codes in the 2003 edition of the CPT. And now that you've had six months to get used to the new codes, you'll have a whole new set of rules to attach them. For example, the 2003 CPT included new laparoscopy codes 44206 through 44239. And those codes just became a lot more complicated to bill, thanks to the National Correct Coding Initiative version 9.2. Many of those new codes are now considered components of other codes, while new components have been added to old codes. Each one of those new...

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