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CCI Version 21.2: Refresh your knowledge of ‘separate procedure’ rules for fracture pinning
If you have been billing code 20650 with your fracture and dislocation repairs, be forewarned that as of July 1, the National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) bundles the code into hundreds of boney treatment codes in the CPT manual. The new code pairs will allow you to unbundle them with a modifier, but it is rarely appropriate to do so, coding experts advise.
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