CPT continues to add new codes, and the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) continues to institute edits that tell you what you can -- and cannot -- report together.
CCI's latest version 15.2 takes effect on July 1, and includes over 3,500 new edit pairs, according to Frank Cohen, senior analyst with MIT Solutions, Inc., in a June 17 news release.
CCI makes over 6,000 code pair deletions this time around and makes ten modifier changes. Unfortunately, nine of those modifier changes are bad news for practices,because they change from a "1" (which meant you could...
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