tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 12

Coding: Anesthesiologists Will Feel Pain From NCCI

If you're billing for anesthetic injection services with dozens of surgery codes, you can expect to have a fight on your hands after July 1.The National Correct Coding Initiative version 9.2, which takes effect next month, includes 3,809 edits, among them many that will make separate reimbursement for anesthesiologists much harder. A quartet of anesthetic injection codes (62311, 64430, 64435 and 64483) become components of 45 different codes in nonmutually exclusive edits."Anesthesiologists will have a heart attack when they see their codes considered as part of the surgical codes," says Steve Verno, director of...

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