DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 7 (July)

New CCI edits bundle joint injections, telehealth visits into most surgeries

You now face restrictions on separate billing of facet joint injections and telehealth visits alongside a wide array of surgery codes, according to a Part B News analysis of the latest version of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits, which took effect July 1. There are 16,928 changes, almost all of which are new edit pairs. For comparison, that's eight times the number of changes in the previous CCI version, which had just 2,195 changes (PBN 3/29/10).

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