EM Coding Alert

Correct Coding Initiative:

Update Your 99201-99215 Coding, Thanks to CCI 20.2

You can exhale: Modifier indicator “1” outnumbers “0” on E/M bundles. As of July 1, you need to familiarize yourself with a new flood of E/M edits with Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) version 20.2. The edits impacting E/M encompass anything from CPT® pediatric critical care and cardiology codes, to eight HCPCS codes. “There are a fair number of new edit [...]
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