tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 23

CORRECT CODING INITIATIVE: CCI 15.2 Scraps Applied Neurostimulator Edit

Look for new edits that affect eye exam codes, anesthesia, and vent management. The Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) may have startled coders with its April 1 edit bundling applied neurostimulator code 64550 into hundreds of other procedures, but new version 15.2 corrects that error, deleting these bundles retroactive to April 1, 2009. The new version of CCI, which takes effect on July 1, does bundle 64550 (Application of surface [transcutaneous] neurostimulator) into several anesthesia codes (such as 01920 and 01922), "but this is nothing considering that code was bundled into practically every other code in CPT prior to...

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