CCI 14.0: Allergy, Urology, Neurology Suffer Scores Of Bundles
CCI strikes new medication therapy management codes
If you were delighted about all of the wonderful new CPT codes for 2008, keep in mind that CPT giveth, but CCI taketh away. You'll find that many of the new codes, as well as existing codes, are subject to CCI's bundling in version 14.0, effective Jan. 1.Spine: CCI bundles 234 codes (including most E/M services and hundreds of spine surgery codes) into new spine anesthesia codes 01935-01936. No modifier can separate the bundle of the E/M services with these anesthesia codes, but a modifier can be used on most...
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