tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 21

SURGICAL PROCEDURES: Craniectomy And Craniotomy Codes Become Entangled With Edits

Surgical procedures become more complicated to bill this summer Anesthesiologists will find it more difficult to bill for injections of retrobulbar medication (67500) with 217 eye procedures after July 1. Unless you have a compelling reason to use a modifier to override them, you'll find that retrobulbar medication is bundled with virtually every surgery in the eyeball section (65091-65850) of the CPTbook, thanks to CCI version 10.2 . Separately, every code in the "twist drill, burr hole(s), or trephine" section (61105-61253) became a component of intercranial neuroendoscopy codes 62161-62165. Almost every one of these edits can be overridden with...

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