tci Part B Insider - 2010 Issue 33

Physician Notes: CCI 16.3 Includes Over 19,000 New Edit Pairs

Plus: Work ICD-10 costs into your budget Effective Oct. 1, a new edition of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) will take hold of your coding. Version 16.3 includes over 19,000 new edit pairs and over 220,000 terminated pairs.Most of the new additions revolve around the newly-introduced Category III CPT codes that went into effect on July 1, as follows: 0228T -- Injection(s), anesthetic agent and/or steroid, transforaminal epidural, with ultrasound guidance,  cervical or thoracic; single level 0230T -- Injection(s), anesthetic agent and/or steroid, transforaminal epidural, with ultrasound guidance, lumbar or sacral; single levelCCI 16...

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