DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 12 (December)

First CCI edits of 2010 continue focus on surgery codes

Nearly 42,000 changes await you in 2010 under the latest Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits released by CMS. That figure is split almost evenly between added and deleted edit pairs, a change from the previous CCI version 15.3 (PBN 9/21/09), which had only 658 deleted pairs, a fraction of the 18,667 deletions in CCI version 16.0, which becomes effective Jan. 1.

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