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Report Vision Screens, Preventive Medicine Separately, Says CCI

Know which edit pairs CMS has deleted effective July 1. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just released the latest round of Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits, and several of them will affect the way you code vision screenings during a preventive medicine visit. To find out why CMS has revised these component codes, and how this [...]
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