tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 7

Catheterizations: Radiologists, Cardiologists Fight Catheter Bundling Edits

CMS insists 36140/31620 'not supported' for selective catheterizationA National Correct Coding Initiative edit that has challenged many cardiologists and radiologists could be on its way out, if radiology specialty societies get their way. NCCI version 9.3, issued last fall, treats nonselective catheterization as a component of selective catheterization (see PBI, Vol. 4, No. 23). The Society of Interventional Radiology and the American College of Radiology "will be opposing these edits and CMS' position regarding this issue," says Dawn R. Hopkins, SIR's senior manager for reimbursement. According to its Web site, SIR recently received a letter from the...

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