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tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 30
Cardiology: CCI Rescinds Controversial Policy Restricting Only One PV Intervention Per Vessel
Watch out: You will still have problems with the reinstated policy, experts sayNo more will you have to limit your physician's peripheral vascular (PV) intervention to one vessel, when the initial intervention (for instance stent, atherectomy and angioplasty) failed. Many societies, including the American College of Cardiology, protested Medicare's bundling policy, and their persistence paid off -- literally.Niles Rosen, MD, Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) medical director, announced the change in an Aug. 6th letter to the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), AMA and coding consultant Stacy Gregory, RCC, CPC, of Tacoma, Wash.-based Gregory Medical Consulting Services, in...
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