tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 9

RADIOLOGY: Associations Protest CCI Edits, Modifier Guidance

Carriers smack down interventional radiologists billing for angiograms If your physician provides a diagnostic angiogram or venogram on the same day as a therapeutic angiogram or venogram, then chances are you've been hit hard by some edits as well as some tricky coding guidance. The Society for Interventional Radiology and other associations wrote to Niles Rosen, director of the Correct Coding Initiative with Adminastar Federal, on Feb. 8 to protest Medicare policies on angiograms and venograms. The SIR, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Radiology and others were protesting two related problems: 1. The Correct Coding...

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