tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 8

CCI 19.2: Greet E/M Bundles for Nearly Every Integumentary Surgery

Focus on three modifiers for unusual cases. If you’re rusty on when evaluation and management (E/M) services are included in the surgical package, you’re in for a rude awakening now that Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) version 19.2 went into effect on July 1.  That’s because the number of changes to CCI 19.2 approaches 300,000 code pairs, and “97 percent [of new-edit-pair column one codes] are within the surgical category,” according to Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB,principal and senior analyst for The Frank Cohen Group in Clearwater, Fla. What’s in...

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