tci E/M Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 9

Correct Coding Initiative: Update Your 99201-99215 Coding, Thanks to CCI 20.2

You can exhale: Modifier indicator “1” outnumbers “0” on E/M bundles. As of July 1, you need to familiarize yourself with a new flood of E/M edits with Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) version 20.2. The edits impacting E/M encompass anything from CPT® pediatric critical care and cardiology codes, to eight HCPCS codes. “There are a fair number of new edit pairs: 20,729 to be exact,” states Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB, principal and senior analyst for The Frank Cohen Group in Clearwater, Fla. But you won’t have to sort through those thousands of...

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