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CCI 16.0:

Get With the Bundling Program Before You Use New Culture Codes

Published on Wed Jan 02, 2013

Look for transcutaneous hemoglobin limitations, too. Think you’re ready to use all those brand new CPT lab codes? Not so fast. You better learn Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) restrictions first, before you start billing Medicare for services using new CPT 2010 codes. CCI released version 16.0, effective Jan. 1, which includes 24,060 new active pairs and 869 modifier changes, according [...]
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