tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 10

CCI EDITS: Bid Farewell to Troubling DEXA Edits

But new CCI additions may disappoint some practicesFor once, you-ve got some good news from the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI).Thanks to the CCI's Version 14.1, you can once again report DEXA and absorptiometry codes 77080-77081 and 77083 with brachytherapy codes 77750-77799. Effective April 1, CCI will delete this edit.With prostate cancer treatment, patients can suffer osteoporosis, so DEXA and absorptiometry can determine whether the patient is at risk for these conditions.New additions: CCI 14.1 didn't stop with its deletion--as usual, most of the changes in this version of CCI were additions to the already...

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