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CCI Update:

CCI 18.1 Update: You No Longer Report Selective Catheter Placement with Vessel Repair

Published on Mon Jun 04, 2012

Plus, you never can mix new compression codes with manipulation.Certain CPT® 2012 codes that eluded Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edit pairs in January are all bundled up as of April 1, 2012. One such example is that for certain vascular injections and blood vessel repair. Read on to learn how you will exercise caution reporting such codes in 2012.CCI version 18.1 reveals a fairly light update, with 358 new edit pairs and 23 terminated pairs. For new pairs, surgery dominated with over 90 percent of both column 1 and column 2 codes, said Frank D. Cohen, MPA, MBB, senior analyst with The Frank Cohen Group, LLC, in his analysis of the changes. Avoid 36251 with 35231 and BeyondCCI 18.1 adds nearly 50 edit pairs with the following blood vessel repair codes in the column 2 position:35231 -- Repair blood vessel with vein graft; neck 35236 -- ... upper extremity 35256 -- ... lower [...]
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