tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 23

NCCI 11.2 SPECIAL REPORT: Total Omentectomy Code Totally Surrounded With Edits

NCCI version 11.2 adds to edits from CCI version 11.0 Ob-Gyn coders rejoiced when CPT 2005 yielded a new surgical code for malignancy, 58956 (Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with total omentectomy, total abdominal hysterectomy for malignancy). But this code is becoming increasingly difficult to bill with other codes. Corpus uteri excision codes 58120-58146, 58152, 58200-58210, 58260, 58267-58285, 58290-58294 all become components of 58956. And another 46 codes also become components of 58956, including several laparoscopy codes. These aren't the first edits to afflict 58956: NCCI 11.0, which took effect last January, said you couldn't bill the new code...

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