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CCI Update:

Include Skin Repair With Most Eye Surgeries

Published on Tue Oct 09, 2012

The latest Correct Coding Initiative update includes over 230,000 new edit pairs. Every quarter coders wait with bated breath to see the effect the latest round of Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) will have on their coding. CCI 18.3 is a doozy. "In the 15 years or so that I have been analyzing the NCCI database, this release will go down in history as the Ripley's Believe it or Not quarterly change," warns Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB, principal and senior analyst for The Frank Cohen Group in Clearwater, Fla. "Effective October 1, 2012, there will be 233,242 new edit pairs added to the database. So, in addition to the overwhelming volume of reasons that payers use to deny payment to a practice, you can add 1 million more, which is just about the size of the new NCCI database. Over 97 percent of these were surgical procedures (codes 10000 through 69999) [...]
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