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Prepare for Record Number of New Code Bundles, Thanks to CCI 18.3

Published on Thu Oct 18, 2012

Changes to skin repair, A-line placement, and temporary pacemaker coding could halt your claims if you don't alter your billing. If your payer(s) follow Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits and rules, you'll want to pay close attention to CCI 18.3, which took effect on Oct. 1, 2012. This edition of CCI brings a huge number of changes that you'll need to incorporate into your billing before you start seeing countless denials. "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 233,241 new edit pairs added to the database. So, in addition to the overwhelming volume of reasons that payers use to deny payment to a [...]
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