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Brush Up on Your MUE Facts

Published on Thu Jan 31, 2013

Here’s the lowdown on Mutually Exclusive edits from CMS. "The Mutually Exclusive edit file included edits where two procedures could not be performed at the same patient encounter because the two procedures were mutually exclusive based on anatomic, temporal, or gender considerations." In April 2012, CMS decided to simply the NCCI files and consolidate the mutually-exclusive file with the Column [...]
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