tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2002 Issue 8

CCI Update: Minor Changes Mean Few Worries for Version 8.2

National Technical Information Services (NTIS) has released version 8.2 of the national Correct Coding Initiative (CCI), which lists over 17,000 code-pair additions (new edits) and 3,700 code-pair deletions. The third-quarter revision for 2002 takes effect July 1 and contains relatively minor changes aimed at general surgery, thus allowing surgeons and their coders to breathe easy this quarter. What's New?The few additions to the mutually exclusive code-pair edits (those procedures that, according to CCI, "cannot reasonably be done in the same session," e.g., two different repair methods for the same organ) occur exclusively in...

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