tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 7

CCI: April Brings Dozens of New CCI Edits

Attention, coders! Forget last month's coding rulebook, because it's a whole new ball game now. Version 9.1 of the Correct Coding Initiative went into effect April 1, and that means big changes in the reimbursement landscape for physician practices. Here are some of the edits that will affect different specialties. Ob-gyn practices: Fifty-five new edits affect ob-gyn practices, and all but five of them will never be paid if you bill them together. The five that you can bypass with a modifier are: 51798, post-voiding residual urine, and 99211, minimal E/M service 52000, cystourethroscopy, and 51700*, bladder irrigation...

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