tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2006 Issue 6

Here's What You Need to Know Most About NCCI 12.1

With more than 10,000 changes in the latest National Correct Coding Initiative quarterly update (version 12.1, effective April 1), you could spend an entire month trying to determine how the edits will affect you. Or you could simply look below for the most important additions and deletions. Modifiers Can't Save Wound Care Bundles Active wound care management codes 97602-97606 became components of 556 different codes on April 1, including many codes from the integumentary system surgery section. The same procedures also became components of many lesion destruction, replantation and amputation codes, among others.You can use a...

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